[Tex/LaTex] How tonstall a tex editor without texlive on ubuntu 16.04

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I installed texlive 2016 on my ubuntu 16.04 and everything works fine. Now when I try to install an editor (like kile, texmaker, texstudio, etc.) through apt-get install I'm forced to install texlive packages from ubuntu, as if I didn't have texlive already… How can I manage to just install a tex editor without installing texlive ?

Best Answer

As jon suggested, you can create a texlive dummy package using equivs and install it. That would satisfy the dependency requirements for any package that needs texlive*.

As I see texstudio does not have a dependency on texlive. So, to prevent apt from pulling in the extra packages, you can try installing it thus:

apt-get --no-install-recommends install texstudio

Edit: Following crocefisso's observation, including install in the command.

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