section 3 : Latex

[arifulone]

i've tried to install Latex on my linux machine using

 sudo apt-get install texlive-full

this package is more than 7 GB in total and now my system is run out of storage. i have only 120 GB of ssd system.
so, i remove it .

can u guys give a link where i can find small LaTex package which is enough to job done ? (less than 1 GB).

[PatrickAlphaC]

Hmm.... Could you try a cloud option perhaps? Like setup a VM in the cloud and run it there?

otherwise... you could also skip creating the PDF

[johnsonstephan]

Hi @arifulone, I totally understand your situation! I had a similar issue while running my Linux VM. The texlive-full package can indeed be quite large and a great alternative is TinyTeX.

TL;DR: Here is a link to TinyTeX, a small LaTex package which is 66MB.

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TinyTeX is a very light solution, which will save you from running out of storage. It is also user-friendly, especially if you're just getting started with LaTeX.

Installation Instructions

1. Open your Linux terminal.

2. Run the following command:

   wget -qO- "https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh" | sh

This command will download and install TinyTeX. You may find more details on the package in its documentation.

Bonus Information

1. I noticed @PatrickAlphaC suggested using a cloud VM which is a great route to go (for example, EC2 from AWS) if you want to use the texlive-full package with your setup. However, if you're set on having LaTeX locally, TinyTeX will solve your issue.
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Does this help to solve your question?

[sakarkc2122]

You can check this TeX Live - Quick install for Unix.
There you can find a Changing defaults section where you can download the relatively smaller version of tex-live using the command-line options mentioned there.

[johnsonstephan]

@arifulone Were you finally able to find a solution?

[sakarkc2122]

Latex working for Windows 11 WSL Ubuntu:

To uninstall the TeX Live package. The * character is a wildcard that matches all packages that start with "texlive".

1. sudo apt-get purge texlive-*

Remove unused packages and clean the package cache

2. sudo apt-get autoremove
3. sudo apt-get autoclean

Remove texlive folder

1. cd ~/../../usr/local/
2. sudo rm -rf texlive/ # this removes texlive folder. Remove is irreversible. So, be careful.

If you already have the texmf folder in the home directory, remove that too. You should be able to do that. Similar to the last command.

Installation

visit tug-Quick Installation for Unix. Or Follow these:

1. cd /tmp # working directory of your choice
2. wget https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz # or curl instead of wget
3. zcat < install-tl-unx.tar.gz | tar xf -
4. cd install-tl-*
5. perl ./install-tl --no-interaction # as root or with writable destination # This line download +7GB. So please go ahead and skip to next command if storage is the issue.
6. sudo perl ./install-tl --no-interaction --scheme=small --no-doc-install --no-src-install # if guide is needed, check quick install above. This took about 11 minutes for me.

Note: Finally, prepend /usr/local/texlive/YYYY/bin/PLATFORM to your PATH, e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux
like this:

1. nano ~/.bashrc => this opens a nano text editor. learn to use this editor
2. Go all the way down using the down arrow. The add:

export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/man"
export INFOPATH="$INFOPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info"

Now you can use tlmgr

Assuming you got the report.md written down.
Next, save that eisvogel.latex file anywhere you wish. But your command would be:
pandoc report.md -o report.pdf --from markdown --template=/*location-to-eisvogel*/eisvogel --listings

If this shows something like: "File 'sourcesanspro.sty' not found. Then:

1. tlmgr init-usertree # Sets up a texmf tree
2. I have to use --usermode for every install like:
   tlmgr --usermode install sourcesanspro

Note: I needed these installations: footnotebackref titling csquotes mdframed zref needspace sourcesanspro ly1 sourcecodepro. Just run that pandoc command, check if any files are missing, and install them using tlmgr --usermode install $package_name.
Thats it.

[cromewar]

Amazing answer @sakarkc2122

[tobezhanabi]

let me give this a try

[sharonphiliplima]

I had to install mdframed extra

[EngrPips]

Glad you figured that out.