Install pdflatex ubuntu

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PdfLatex is a tool that converts Latex sources into PDF. This is specifically very important for researchers, as they use it to publish their findings. It could be installed very easily using Linux terminal, though this seems an annoying task on Windows. Installation commands are given below.

• Install the TexLive base

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

• Also install the recommended and extra fonts to avoid running into the error [1], when trying to use pdflatex on latex files with more fonts.

sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra

• Install the extra packages,

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Once installed as above, you may be able to create PDF files from latex sources using PdfLatex as below.

pdflatex latex_source_name.tex

Error 1: grep: ptmr7t.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t' failed to make ptmr7t.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font OT1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr7t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

Ref: http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2014/04/installing-latexpdflatex-on-ubuntu.html

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1429846/how-can-i-install-latex-on-ubuntu-20-04-5

Only doing this worked for me aswell sudo apt install texlive

I do it on 22.04 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2021.20220204-1).

I do it on 23.10 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2023.20230613-3).

How can I get the newest pdflatex on 22.04 that recognizes hyphenation in other languages than English?

I do it on 22.04 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2021.20220204-1).

I do it on 23.10 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2023.20230613-3).

How can I get the newest pdflatex on 22.04 that recognizes hyphenation in other languages than English?

use this code to install latest text-live on 22.04 and use 'tlmgr' to install any required extra package,

i hope it helps

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1429846/how-can-i-install-latex-on-ubuntu-20-04-5

Only doing this worked for me as well sudo apt install texlive

can you please share more details because i want to achieve the same but i am not able to get latest version on text-live

Maybe it is dangerous to install texlive's latest version as it might not work with your operating system. I guess this is why different operating systems have different versions of texlive available.

I wouldn't say it is dangerous, rather it is tricky to make it work

To generate PDFs as mentioned in How to create a PDF-out-of-Sphinx-documentation-tool, I had to install all of the above plus latexmk.

To generate png using latexpdf, i had to install all of the above plus ghostscript.