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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "texlive-base" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install texlive-base on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "texlive-base" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall texlive-base on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2018.20190227-2
Installed-Size: 58030
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: texlive-common (<< 2013)
Provides: dvipdfmx
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, tex-common (>= 6), libpaper-utils, sensible-utils, texlive-binaries (>= 2018.20180416), ucf, xdg-utils
Recommends: lmodern (>= 0.93.3)
Suggests: ghostscript, gv | postscript-viewer, perl-tk, xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer
Conflicts: luasseq (<< 2018.20190227), prosper (<< 2018.20190227), tex4ht (<< 20160814), texlive (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-base (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-bibtex-extra (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-binaries (<< 2018.20180416), texlive-extra-utils (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-font-utils (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-fonts-extra (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-fonts-extra-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-fonts-extra-links (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-fonts-recommended (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-formats-extra (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-full (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-games (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-generic-extra (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-generic-recommended (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-htmlxml (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-humanities (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-humanities-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-african (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-all (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-arabic (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-chinese (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-cjk (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-czechslovak (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-english (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-european (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-french (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-german (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-greek (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-indic (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-italian (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-japanese (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-korean (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-other (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-polish (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-portuguese (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-lang-spanish (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-base (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-base-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-extra (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-extra-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-recommended (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-latex-recommended-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-luatex (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-metapost (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-metapost-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-music (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-omega (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-pictures (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-pictures-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-plain-extra (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-plain-generic (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-pstricks (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-pstricks-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-publishers (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-publishers-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-science (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-science-doc (<< 2018.20190227), texlive-xetex (<< 2018.20190227)
Breaks: texlive-common (<< 2013), texlive-math-extra (<< 2017)
Description: TeX Live: Essential programs and files
Description-md5: 2cbe824ae7dd2c0a2ded3fdd1bfbc834
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Tag: interface::commandline, made-of::font, made-of::html, made-of::pdf,
made-of::tex, role::app-data, role::data, role::documentation,
role::program, suite::TODO, use::typesetting, works-with-format::pdf,
works-with-format::postscript, works-with-format::tex,
works-with::font, works-with::image, works-with::image:vector,
works-with::text, x11::font
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2018.20190227-2_all.deb
Size: 19733496
MD5sum: 7d306bb2578ea4b77fb8d0fc478ffedc
SHA256: cadd6987f81eb1b71aaae0b87b0e9e70d5235abfe8361ebf0ee92b1e9df6be4c