How to Install and Uninstall texlive Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "texlive" package

Please follow the instructions below to install texlive on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                texlive
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "texlive" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall texlive on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                texlive
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the texlive package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: texlive
Source: texlive-base
Version: 2018.20190227-2
Installed-Size: 70
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-base (>= 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2018.20190227)
Description: TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
Description-md5: 19838094eeee28c5a5392b813c6cec17
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Tag: made-of::tex, role::app-data, role::program, use::typesetting,
works-with-format::tex, works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive_2018.20190227-2_all.deb
Size: 32600
MD5sum: 94f1a653081409d4c7b93a483da8f69e
SHA256: 3c7b84c899478c45d5a48e6c2c1bd5ff81341158e00ef09875ff35cad698d117