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I'm new to LaTeX, but want to get started for real; settled for Texmaker; now checked the version (and changelog) and noticed a discrepancy between what I've got installed (3.4) and what's been released (4.0.1) -- just a few days ago.

I found an outdated PPA, but nothing else so far. So far, I've either installed things through Ubuntu or via a PPA, but hardly ever downloaded from a dev website, let alone compiled stuff from source.

  1. Does anyone know of a PPA or an official Ubuntu way of upgrading to the latest release of Texmaker?
  2. Are there any reasons I should not go ahead and simply download Ubuntu 12.04 i386 package : texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.0.1_i386.deb (Qt4) ?

Please provide some guidance or a link to a good discussion/explanation on what to do a with a deb-file... i.e.,

  • How does it differ from directly installing through Ubuntu Software Center;
  • What needs to be considered / taken care of / maintained;
  • Why should one (generally) avoid a "manual" deb-installation (especially if one does trust the source)?
Zanna
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nutty about natty
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The Software Center didn't have the latest texmaker as 4 days ago when I installed. I downloaded and installed the amd64 version downloaded texmaker's website. I followed the instructions for Linux; that is, remove all previous version and install.

  1. Download the most recent version (be sure to choose the correct version for your system: 32 or 64 bit): http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html
  2. Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and enter sudo apt-get purge texmaker to remove any previously installed version
  3. Assuming the new version you just downloaded is in the Downloads folder, issue the following command in a terminal: sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/texmaker_ubuntu_*.deb
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    Can you expand this to include a link to what you downloaded and a link to the instructions? (A summary of the important parts of the instructions would be an excellent addition, too.) – Eliah Kagan Mar 23 '13 at 18:03
  • @dustin The download-link already is in my question; I'm interested in the ramifications of installing a deb (inter alia: how to and where to uninstall it again; does a manual deb-installation actually "talk to" apt-get, synpatic, etc? Do they know of their resp. (non-)existence? – nutty about natty Mar 24 '13 at 09:52
  • @nuttyaboutnatty what I did was sudo apt-get purge texmaker and then I did sudo dpkg -i (deb file name for texmaker). Everything works perfectly with not issues at all. – dustin Mar 24 '13 at 17:10
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Esay way is to use the terminal and run:

sudo apt-get install texmaker
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