latex on ubuntu

Development Environment

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base  texlive-latex-extra xzdec

Package Management

Init tlmgr with command:

tlmgr init-usertree

Then you can install packages by:

tlmgr install <name>

But sometimes you could not find a package by this command, you need to search here to see the container.
Yet, the recommend way is to install full package in apt-get.

Sample Content

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage,times,mathptmx,times,url}

\title{Sample}
\author{Due dates: January 8, 2015, 12 Noon \textbf{and} January 22, 2015, 12 Noon}
\date{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}

\textbf{Objective}: Write a survey of Related Work.

\bigskip

\textbf{Detailed Instructions}:

\textbf{Part A}: Outline of related work.

Submit a PDF file \textbf{only} to D2L.  Please name your file \texttt{A4aLastNameFirstName.pdf}
(e.g., I would submit a file called \texttt{A4aBruceNeil.pdf}).   Part A is due on January 8 at 12 Noon.

\pagebreak

\textbf{Part B}: Survey of related work.

Part B is due on January 22 at 12 Noon.

\end{document}

Compile

latex sample.tex

PDF Reader

There is okular in KDE.

okular sample.pdf