[Tex/LaTex] How uninstall TeXLive 2013 under Windows 8

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How does one uninstall the previous version (2013) of TeXLive under Windows (Windows 8, to be specific).

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Uninstall it like you would any other program.

Search for "Uninstall a program" (part of the Control Panel), find and select TeX Live 2013 and click Uninstall/Change:

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This should work for any version of TeX Live.

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[Tex/LaTex] Versions of TeXLive under Ubuntu

I run TeX Live 2011 but also have most, if not all, the synaptic-managed packages from Ubuntu 11.04 on the systems. By having the paths set up correctly most software packages work well, especially those run from the command line that are part of TeX Live (I went through this in more detail in a response to a related question).

However, if you read through that answer you will notice that some software tools do not follow the set path; they have internal settings that could reference, in both our cases, the wrong versions of other tools and packages.

The version of TeXworks I run does this but has a simple configuration setting to modify.

I rarely use Kile but if you look at the menu for the synaptic-installed Kile at Settings -> Configure Kile -> Kile -> Help that the default path to the LaTeX help system is set to /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc. This is wrong on my system and may be on yours but is simply changed. On running a simple pdflatex build the output window shows This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) which is not the version I would want it to run by default for live work. I do not know of a single configuration setting that can change this. A Kile support discussion suggested several workrounds that you may want to consider including running it from the console, as Peter commented above.

In the discussion below Bill comments that "the latest release of KILE (Version 2.1) contains the fix" and provides a link to a pre-general release PPA.

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