hello,

I'm using ubuntu and I'd like to write latex documents.
In windows, I was using miktex and texniccenter, but I think these softwares don't work on linux. What are the best softwares in linux to write latex documents, and how to install them ?

Thanks.

There's a program called 'lyx', I've heard good things about it, haven't tried it myself.

Would that be the compiler (miktex) or the word processor ?
Doesn't anybody use latex on linux ?
What's the most used software ?

Latex was developed on and for Unix 3 decades before Windows became popular, so there is a fair chance it is available.

In your package manager, chose too install:
texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-extra-doc
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc

I think pdflatex is included in one of them

jlinkels

Yes, texlive is the package. Here are some tutorials how to set it up on ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX
http://linuxandfriends.com/2009/10/0...-ubuntu-linux/

As far as an editor is concerned, I started with texmaker and then switched to emacs.

lyx is a word processor.

I just download it using

and got 231MB worth of dependencies... so you're going to get the kitchen sink in there...

Erm, I'd say the best "software" to write LaTeX documents would be whatever text editor you prefer to use. In my case this is nedit, however you could use vi, emacs, joe, kate etc etc...
Compiling - use the "latex" command! I couldn't say whether it comes with ubuntu but it does with slackware and certainly used to with Fedora when it was at core 2/3!

If you used Kubuntu, I would recommend Kile for editing LaTeX documents. It is an ide for LaTeX projects.

Ok so I installed these :
texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-extra-doc
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc
and texmaker.

I have a few problems.
First of all texmaker doesn't show as many tools as I would like. I would prefer something that looks like texniccenter, or at least something that looks like what I found here on google, while searching for "texmaker screenshots". Instead, I get this.
Second of all, as you can see on the screenshot that I made, there's an error on compiling. What should I do so that at least each package listed in the screenshot is available ?
Moreover, as you can see on the screenshot as well, there seems to be a problem with the line count : the line number should be 2 and not 3. How to fix that ?

Thanks.

Can someone help me to solve these problems please ??

Doesn't anyone know the answer to at least one of my problems?

help.

Look, behaving in such a childish way will definitely not get you an answer quicker - what it may do is simply annoy forum members.

Google shows that stmaryrd.sty is part of texlive-math-extra. Have you installed it?

Hi,
thanks for your answer.
I'm sorry if I didn't act in a correct manner, I just thought I'd bring up my post to get more people to see it and to get answered.
No, I didn't know stmaryrd.sty is part of texlive-math-extra. I installed it.
It works better now, but I found some new problems :
- accents are not supported (é,è,...) (I think the babel package is to blame for that).
- By default, it's compiled as dvi. How to change it to pdf ?

jlinkels