If you're not hurting for disk space (beware, it's over 2 GB!), I recommend installing the texlive-full package, or even skipping Ubuntu's package manager and installing TeXlive directly from CTAN/TUG.

(E.g., Texmaker(x) has a built in preview now, gedit has become more SyncTeX compliant - I guess evince now has some SyncTeX features, though I've never figured out how to use them.) I think a lot of the information there will be worthwhile, even though some of it is out of date, or new things have been added in the meantime not mentioned there. The post is about six months old at this time. (Of course, I was using Ubuntu when I wrote the post!) I while back I wrote a blog post comparing 8 different free LaTeX editors, all of which are available for Ubuntu. Most of these editors don't really have a preview pane but this is not really necessary: Just keep evince open with the document you are working on, evince will automatically refresh its content as soon as you 'compile' your latex document lyx : not really a LaTeX editor but more a word processor that uses LaTeX internally - opinions differ whether this is the best way to learn 'real' LaTeX.latexila : Like KILE, but targeted to GNOME.less buttons in the toolbar -) ), a bit fewer features than KILE probably texmaker : Similar in scope to KILE, but more 'GNOME-like' (e.g.kile : a powerful editor for KDE (can be installed under GNOME and works fine apart from changing some configuration details to use the GNOME pdf viewer for example).you can jump to the same position in both)

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texworks : A LaTeX editor with a quite clean and simple interface, featuring an integrated PDF viewer and synchronisation between the editor and the viewer (i.e.If you just need basic editing support like syntax highlighting, any text editor will do, including the standard GNOME text editor gedit. There are also nice topic oriented packages like texlive-science or texlive-humanities - but if you want to learn the basics of LaTeX you certainly don't need them. If you're writing in a language different from English, you should also add the respective language package, e.g.

Additionally you can install documentation in your language, eg. Just install the texlive package, this will pull in all the essentials.

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