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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "texlive-generic-recommended" package

This tutorial shows how to install texlive-generic-recommended on Debian 10 (Buster)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall texlive-generic-recommended on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: texlive-generic-recommended
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: 120b1a400140a737fdd37dab18683f6e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Tag: role::plugin, use::typesetting, works-with-format::tex, works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-generic-recommended_2018.20190227-2_all.deb
Size: 32160
MD5sum: 0f4bbc511f23f8b771adb750d054c660
SHA256: 8007bc2585df9ae7f42b0b41865b19a1bfbb0b36ccaaa51835cd0411f6541b7e