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My impression: What you get with LaTeX is a larger ecosystem and greater likelihood that someone has already done what you need (in some package or other, though it may be only "close" and figuring out how to improve it may be hard). sty file, which is something of a dark art.ĬonTeXt is from about a decade later, after some lessons were learned. To change the appearance the recommendation often given is to write a. Since then, a very large number of users of varying competence have written ad-hoc packages to extend or customize it. The core ("kernel") of LaTeX cannot be changed as a lot of documents would break. Refer to this answer to solve the issue of rm: missing operand when running (8.LaTeX was written and basically frozen in the 80s/early 90s (LaTeX 2e is from 1994).

Or, to be more careful and also more thorough, follow the steps of this answer, which worked for me. If you know what you're doing, you can add sudo between the pipe and xargs rm, so that it becomes find -L /usr/local/bin/ -lname /usr/local/texlive/*/bin/* | sudo xargs rm Rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/bibmradd': Permission denied Rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/kpsereadlink': Permission denied Rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/ulqda': Permission denied Rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/pkfix-helper': Permission denied Rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/dviconcat': Permission denied

In case that - after the last command (8.) - your terminal returns something like this rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/deweb': Permission denied To see which files are being deleted, replace xargs rm with xargs -t rm (or tee off to a log file, or whatever). This finds all the files in /usr/local/bin which point to a location within /usr/local/texlive/*/bin/* and removes them because we’ve already deleted all of /usr/local/texlive, these are dead links. Sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/* and rm -rf ~/.texlive*įind -L /usr/local/bin/ -lname /usr/local/texlive/*/bin/* | xargs -r rm If you progress, respective folders may already be deleted:

Try the following commands, one after another.