LaTeX setup for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

If you are installing LaTeX on a Debian derivative and want to use department-specific styles and fonts, follow these steps:

• Install the standard tex packages from your distribution. You may of course choose to install only a selection, but a full installation is about 3 GB, and a reasonable working selection will be close to 2 GB, so you might just as well go for the full installation, i.e.

  • sudo apt-get install texlive-full

• Execute

  • sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/update-texmf-local http://dist.control.lth.se/public/Texlive/texmf-local/scripts/update-texmf-local
    
    sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/update-texmf-local
    
    sudo update-texmf-local

Done.