How to Install and Uninstall texlive-base Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "texlive-base" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install texlive-base on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall texlive-base on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the texlive-base package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2020.20210202-3
Installed-Size: 42418
Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force
Architecture: all
Replaces: texlive-common (<< 2013), texlive-extra-utils (<< 2019.20191208), texlive-fonts-recommended (<< 2019.20200213), texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (<< 2019.20200213), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-lang-european (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-lang-other (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-lang-spanish (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-latex-extra (<< 2019.20190701), texlive-latex-extra-doc (<< 2019.20190701), texlive-plain-generic (<< 2020)
Provides: dvipdfmx
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, tex-common (>= 6.14), libpaper-utils, sensible-utils, texlive-binaries (>= 2020.20200327), ucf, xdg-utils
Recommends: lmodern (>= 0.93.3)
Suggests: ghostscript, gv | postscript-viewer, perl-tk, xpdf | pdf-viewer, xzdec
Conflicts: tex4ht (<< 20160814), texlive (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-base (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-bibtex-extra (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-binaries (<< 2020.20200327), texlive-extra-utils (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-font-utils (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-fonts-extra (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-fonts-extra-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-fonts-extra-links (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-fonts-recommended (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-formats-extra (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-full (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-games (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-humanities (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-humanities-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-all (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-arabic (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-chinese (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-cjk (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-czechslovak (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-english (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-european (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-french (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-german (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-greek (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-italian (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-japanese (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-korean (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-other (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-polish (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-portuguese (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-lang-spanish (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-latex-base (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-latex-base-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-latex-extra (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-latex-extra-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-latex-recommended (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-latex-recommended-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-luatex (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-metapost (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-metapost-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-music (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-pictures (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-pictures-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-plain-generic (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-pstricks (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-pstricks-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-publishers (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-publishers-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-science (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-science-doc (<< 2020.20200417), texlive-xetex (<< 2020.20200417)
Breaks: texlive-common (<< 2013), texlive-extra-utils (<< 2020.20200329-2), texlive-fonts-recommended (<< 2019.20200213), texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (<< 2019.20200213), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-lang-european (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-lang-other (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-lang-spanish (<< 2019.20190506), texlive-latex-extra (<< 2019.20190701), texlive-latex-extra-doc (<< 2019.20190701), texlive-math-extra (<< 2017), texlive-plain-generic (<< 2020)
Description: TeX Live: Essential programs and files
Description-md5: 25e1804aa01e6fd329eda30ad5d6d1dd
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_2020.20210202-3_all.deb
Size: 20842444
MD5sum: 48dcd8d12c3b12db025858c51e065271
SHA256: 79f084832a40e29f281ebc6f3e66a8f641bbb93c3ae7b45179b08b0168b7a785