How to Install TeXworks on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS

In this guide, we will show you how to install TeXworks in Ubuntu systems.

TeXworks is free and open-source application software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions. TeXworks is targeted at direct generation of PDF output. It has a built-in PDF viewer using the poppler library; the viewer has auto-refresh capability, and also features SyncTeX support (which allows the user to synchronize the PDF viewer position with the source, and vice versa with a single click).

Install TeXworks on Ubuntu-APT method

Follow the steps below to get started with TeXworks :

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

• TeXworks package is not available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it via importing PPA repo as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:texworks/stable -y

• Run the command below to reflect on PPA

sudo apt update -y

• Then install TeXworks as shown below:

sudo apt install texworks -y

Access TeXworks

• Access TeXworks through the command line by running the command

texworks

• Also you can search on the system search bar by typing TeXworks as follows

• TeXworks will be launched as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) TeXworks

• Remove TeXworks with APT Remove Method:

sudo apt autoremove texworks --purge
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:texworks/stable -y

Install TeXworks -Conclusion

That’s it

Thanks.