Complete Guide: Installing texlive-generic-extra on Debian 10 (Buster) 2025

1. Install "texlive-generic-extra" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install texlive-generic-extra on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "texlive-generic-extra" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall texlive-generic-extra 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-generic-extra package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: texlive-generic-extra
Source: texlive-base
Version: 2018.20190227-2
Installed-Size: 69
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: texlive-plain-generic (>= 2018.20190227)
Description: TeX Live: transitional dummy package
Description-md5: fc4b02f82f4b606fef90583cdcee4670
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Tag: made-of::font, made-of::tex, role::app-data, role::program,
works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::postscript,
works-with-format::tex, works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-generic-extra_2018.20190227-2_all.deb
Size: 32156
MD5sum: 8051d329209c812720b8d27fe23b3304
SHA256: ad2fbbd48b6618a8cf8294fc9e37b59f103e5fd2778bd8f6499371243db49054