How to Install and Uninstall texlive-plain-generic Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: December 23,2024

You can also install and uninstall the texlive-plain-generic on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "texlive-plain-generic" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install texlive-plain-generic on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "texlive-plain-generic" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall texlive-plain-generic on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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3. Information about the texlive-plain-generic package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: texlive-plain-generic
Architecture: all
Version: 2021.20220204-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/tex
Source: texlive-extra
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 62419
Provides: tex4ht
Depends: tex-common (>= 6.13), texlive-base (>= 2021.20210921), texlive-binaries (>= 2021.20210626)
Recommends: texlive-latex-base
Suggests: default-jre-headless
Conflicts: tex4ht (<< 20160814), tex4ht-common
Breaks: tex4ht (<< 20160814), texlive-base (<< 2021.20210628)
Replaces: tex4ht (<< 20160814)
Filename: pool/universe/t/texlive-extra/texlive-plain-generic_2021.20220204-1_all.deb
Size: 27528328
MD5sum: 4f491bb985e2ed1386ff3ea67a16cf64
SHA1: 94c7d4e8a58fe4715e0b450156a1fcc66658dc9a
SHA256: fc60b678a8b906d8620c8f6f5212fc0292dff9874f395b21a9934fa1fc6f6053
SHA512: 007039cde8375115e202cbd560ef0524eb6c48ae12f252cdbc6337a0034f8ea1f31b3fb16f82e4a9a82da1ceb30667b26ffbd06aac391cbf87576aaa3d7deede
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Description: TeX Live: Plain (La)TeX packages
Description-md5: 7c1e6cf4b8446692aa1c124c5d8c1a22