Installing Latext on opensuse 13.1

This guide explains how to install LaTeX in opensuse 13.1 Linux. LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content.
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How to install LaTeX in Opensuse 13.1

$ sudo zypper install texlive

$ sudo zypper install texlive-full 

Gedit LaTeX Plugin

Gedit has a plugin for LaTeX which converts Gedit into a LaTeX editor. You can install the Gedit LaTeX plugin as follows :
$ sudo apt-get install gedit-latex-plugin Once you install the plug-in, you will have to enable the plug-in in Gedit to begin using it. This is achieved by opening Gedit Preferences (GEdit > Edit > Preferences). Then clicking on the Plugins tab and turning on the “Gedit LaTeX plugin”. Now when ever you open a TeX file, you will have access to the LaTeX menu in Gedit.

Recommended LaTeX Packages

• latex-beamer – Beamer package is used to create presentations. It is an excellent LaTeX class that supports dynamic effects.
• TeXPower – Is a bundle of style and class files for creating dynamic online presentations with LaTeX.
• Prosper – A LaTeX class for writing transparencies.
• texlive-pictures – This is a LaTeX package for drawing graphics. It contain several classes such as ‘curve’ (for creating resumes), ‘bardiag’ (for bar graphs), ‘pmgraph’ (poor man’s graphics) and so on.
• texlive-latex-extra – This is a large collection of addon packages for LaTeX. Th
  

This is the full command I used to install LaTeX on my machine running Ubuntu Linux.

$ sudo zypper install gedit-latex-plugin texlive-fonts-recommended latex-beamer texpower texlive-pictures texlive-latex-extra texpower-examples imagemagick

Now to get GUI support for you can use Texmaker

$zypper install Texmaker

For running LaTex we need to run from /usr/bin

./latex

./texmaker 

Now you are ready to go.....Keep smiling and use Linux