I am an absolute beginner to LaTeX. And I'm following the Wikibooks tutorial. I am at the part where it talks about packages. It doesn't really explain where to download and install them. So where do I? In the tutorial, they're using the mathptmx and pifont.
I am using ShareLaTeX, if that matters.
Best Answer
In share latex you will not have to do anything other than specifying the package you want.
If you want to work locally without a constant internet access, I would recommend using MikTeX for package handling, it will do it automatically, and TeXmaker for typing and previewing as it will let you have a preview window open and you can just click in it and it jumps to the relevant latex code.