How to Install and Uninstall texlive-base Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "texlive-base" package

Learn how to install texlive-base on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall texlive-base on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                texlive-base
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the texlive-base package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: texlive-base
Architecture: all
Version: 2015.20160320-1ubuntu0.1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 53176
Provides: dvipdfmx
Depends: tex-common (>= 6), libpaper-utils, texlive-binaries (>= 2015.20160222.37495-1), ucf, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, xdg-utils
Recommends: lmodern (>= 0.93.3)
Suggests: perl-tk, gv | postscript-viewer, ghostscript, xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer
Conflicts: etoolbox (<< 2015), luasseq (<< 2015), texlive (<< 2015), texlive-base (<< 2015), texlive-bibtex-extra (<< 2015), texlive-binaries (<< 2015.20160222.37495-1), texlive-extra-utils (<< 2015), texlive-font-utils (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-extra (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-extra-doc (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-recommended (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (<< 2015), texlive-formats-extra (<< 2015), texlive-full (<< 2015), texlive-games (<< 2015), texlive-generic-extra (<< 2015), texlive-generic-recommended (<< 2015), texlive-htmlxml (<< 2015), texlive-humanities (<< 2015), texlive-humanities-doc (<< 2015), texlive-lang-african (<< 2015), texlive-lang-all (<< 2015), texlive-lang-arabic (<< 2015), texlive-lang-chinese (<< 2015), texlive-lang-cjk (<< 2015), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2015), texlive-lang-czechslovak (<< 2015), texlive-lang-english (<< 2015), texlive-lang-european (<< 2015), texlive-lang-french (<< 2015), texlive-lang-german (<< 2015), texlive-lang-greek (<< 2015), texlive-lang-indic (<< 2015), texlive-lang-italian (<< 2015), texlive-lang-japanese (<< 2015), texlive-lang-korean (<< 2015), texlive-lang-other (<< 2015), texlive-lang-polish (<< 2015), texlive-lang-portuguese (<< 2015), texlive-lang-spanish (<< 2015), texlive-latex-base (<< 2015), texlive-latex-base-doc (<< 2015), texlive-latex-extra (<< 2015), texlive-latex-extra-doc (<< 2015), texlive-latex-recommended (<< 2015), texlive-latex-recommended-doc (<< 2015), texlive-luatex (<< 2015), texlive-math-extra (<< 2015), texlive-metapost (<< 2015), texlive-metapost-doc (<< 2015), texlive-music (<< 2015), texlive-omega (<< 2015), texlive-pictures (<< 2015), texlive-pictures-doc (<< 2015), texlive-plain-extra (<< 2015), texlive-pstricks (<< 2015), texlive-pstricks-doc (<< 2015), texlive-publishers (<< 2015), texlive-publishers-doc (<< 2015), texlive-science (<< 2015), texlive-science-doc (<< 2015), texlive-xetex (<< 2015)
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2015.20160320-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb
Size: 18252918
MD5sum: 90cb8bc7dd9bf3b058ccf0e18601770c
SHA1: 3056e386bf0460b228c14409c0cf198f006aa55b
SHA256: fae496735f51fe161a03b54d7539accba4855979adddc328e8494b8aa07718f9
SHA512: c54fd5e5680a72f377248615eaec0f6f781c76e7ca081ab661faff26bf3a1a6f4b637eb6a728897ccf551dce450ccf1b32a80a6f250f7c3b552baa7d4cf71cc5
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Description-en: TeX Live: Essential programs and files
These files are regarded as basic for any TeX system, covering plain TeX
macros, Computer Modern fonts, and configuration for common drivers; no
LaTeX.
.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
.
texlive.infra -- basic TeX Live infrastructure
.
amsfonts -- TeX fonts from the American Mathematical Society.
.
bibtex -- Process bibliographies for LaTeX, etc.
.
cm -- Computer Modern fonts.
.
dvipdfmx -- An extended version of dvipdfm
.
dvipdfmx-def -- Configuration file for dvipdfmx graphics
.
dvips -- A DVI to PostScript driver
.
enctex -- A TeX extension that translates input on its way into TeX.
.
etex -- An extended version of TeX, from the NTS project.
.
etex-pkg -- E-TeX support package
.
glyphlist --
.
gsftopk -- Convert "ghostscript fonts" to PK files.
.
hyph-utf8 -- Hyphenation patterns expressed in UTF-8
.
hyphen-base --
.
ifluatex -- Provides the \ifluatex switch.
.
ifxetex -- Am I running under XeTeX?
.
knuth-lib -- A small library of MetaFont sources.
.
knuth-local -- Knuth's local information
.
kpathsea -- Path searching library for TeX-related files
.
lua-alt-getopt -- Process application arguments the same way as getopt_long.
.
luatex -- The LuaTeX engine
.
makeindex -- Makeindex development sources.
.
metafont -- A system for specifying fonts
.
mflogo -- LaTeX support for Metafont logo fonts
.
mfware -- Supporting tools for use with Metafont.
.
pdftex -- A TeX extension for direct creation of PDF
.
plain -- The Plain TeX format
.
tetex -- scripts and files originally written for or included in teTeX
.
tex -- A sophisticated typesetting engine
.
texconfig --
.
texlive-common -- TeX Live documentation (common elements)
.
texlive-docindex -- top-level TeX Live doc.html, etc.
.
texlive-en -- TeX Live manual (English)
.
unicode-data -- Unicode data and loaders for TeX
.
xdvi -- A DVI previewer for the X Window System.
.
texdoc -- Documentation access for TeX distributions
Description-md5: 97546a963a17d8f989ee4edefd5634f7
Task: edubuntu-desktop-gnome, ubuntustudio-fonts
Supported: 5y

Package: texlive-base
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 53175
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 2015.20160320-1
Provides: dvipdfmx
Depends: tex-common (>= 6), libpaper-utils, texlive-binaries (>= 2015.20160222.37495-1), ucf, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, xdg-utils
Recommends: lmodern (>= 0.93.3)
Suggests: perl-tk, gv | postscript-viewer, ghostscript, xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer
Conflicts: etoolbox (<< 2015), luasseq (<< 2015), texlive (<< 2015), texlive-base (<< 2015), texlive-bibtex-extra (<< 2015), texlive-binaries (<< 2015.20160222.37495-1), texlive-extra-utils (<< 2015), texlive-font-utils (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-extra (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-extra-doc (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-recommended (<< 2015), texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (<< 2015), texlive-formats-extra (<< 2015), texlive-full (<< 2015), texlive-games (<< 2015), texlive-generic-extra (<< 2015), texlive-generic-recommended (<< 2015), texlive-htmlxml (<< 2015), texlive-humanities (<< 2015), texlive-humanities-doc (<< 2015), texlive-lang-african (<< 2015), texlive-lang-all (<< 2015), texlive-lang-arabic (<< 2015), texlive-lang-chinese (<< 2015), texlive-lang-cjk (<< 2015), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2015), texlive-lang-czechslovak (<< 2015), texlive-lang-english (<< 2015), texlive-lang-european (<< 2015), texlive-lang-french (<< 2015), texlive-lang-german (<< 2015), texlive-lang-greek (<< 2015), texlive-lang-indic (<< 2015), texlive-lang-italian (<< 2015), texlive-lang-japanese (<< 2015), texlive-lang-korean (<< 2015), texlive-lang-other (<< 2015), texlive-lang-polish (<< 2015), texlive-lang-portuguese (<< 2015), texlive-lang-spanish (<< 2015), texlive-latex-base (<< 2015), texlive-latex-base-doc (<< 2015), texlive-latex-extra (<< 2015), texlive-latex-extra-doc (<< 2015), texlive-latex-recommended (<< 2015), texlive-latex-recommended-doc (<< 2015), texlive-luatex (<< 2015), texlive-math-extra (<< 2015), texlive-metapost (<< 2015), texlive-metapost-doc (<< 2015), texlive-music (<< 2015), texlive-omega (<< 2015), texlive-pictures (<< 2015), texlive-pictures-doc (<< 2015), texlive-plain-extra (<< 2015), texlive-pstricks (<< 2015), texlive-pstricks-doc (<< 2015), texlive-publishers (<< 2015), texlive-publishers-doc (<< 2015), texlive-science (<< 2015), texlive-science-doc (<< 2015), texlive-xetex (<< 2015)
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2015.20160320-1_all.deb
Size: 18208190
MD5sum: fd603e826706eb050c9179cd75cbaff8
SHA1: a8b02015ec5372ba20e89860e93dbf3840e88d41
SHA256: 071ff13495363c752c493a422c95aade3d7fe6dc4f74e83dbc3a18805c42c76c
Description-en: TeX Live: Essential programs and files
These files are regarded as basic for any TeX system, covering plain TeX
macros, Computer Modern fonts, and configuration for common drivers; no
LaTeX.
.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
.
texlive.infra -- basic TeX Live infrastructure
.
amsfonts -- TeX fonts from the American Mathematical Society.
.
bibtex -- Process bibliographies for LaTeX, etc.
.
cm -- Computer Modern fonts.
.
dvipdfmx -- An extended version of dvipdfm
.
dvipdfmx-def -- Configuration file for dvipdfmx graphics
.
dvips -- A DVI to PostScript driver
.
enctex -- A TeX extension that translates input on its way into TeX.
.
etex -- An extended version of TeX, from the NTS project.
.
etex-pkg -- E-TeX support package
.
glyphlist --
.
gsftopk -- Convert "ghostscript fonts" to PK files.
.
hyph-utf8 -- Hyphenation patterns expressed in UTF-8
.
hyphen-base --
.
ifluatex -- Provides the \ifluatex switch.
.
ifxetex -- Am I running under XeTeX?
.
knuth-lib -- A small library of MetaFont sources.
.
knuth-local -- Knuth's local information
.
kpathsea -- Path searching library for TeX-related files
.
lua-alt-getopt -- Process application arguments the same way as getopt_long.
.
luatex -- The LuaTeX engine
.
makeindex -- Makeindex development sources.
.
metafont -- A system for specifying fonts
.
mflogo -- LaTeX support for Metafont logo fonts
.
mfware -- Supporting tools for use with Metafont.
.
pdftex -- A TeX extension for direct creation of PDF
.
plain -- The Plain TeX format
.
tetex -- scripts and files originally written for or included in teTeX
.
tex -- A sophisticated typesetting engine
.
texconfig --
.
texlive-common -- TeX Live documentation (common elements)
.
texlive-docindex -- top-level TeX Live doc.html, etc.
.
texlive-en -- TeX Live manual (English)
.
unicode-data -- Unicode data and loaders for TeX
.
xdvi -- A DVI previewer for the X Window System.
.
texdoc -- Documentation access for TeX distributions
Description-md5: 97546a963a17d8f989ee4edefd5634f7
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: edubuntu-desktop-gnome, ubuntustudio-fonts