 All right, so in this video, we're gonna talk about something that actually a lot of people have asked me about a lot of people have seen my LaTeX videos and you know, they're good for beginners, I guess But there are some people who are not even beginners They see the videos they like what they see, but they don't actually know how you go about Installing and using LaTeX at a basic level. So in this video, I'm gonna show you how to install LaTeX Your different options for compiling the different things you can do and how to get the specific setup that you see on My computer and all these videos So anyway, I actually wrote wrote this up sort of you know in text form on my website I'm gonna give you a link to this, but I'm just gonna explain sort of how you do all the different stuff Now I'm just gonna say in general there are two different ways to compile LaTeX documents You can write them online with an online service or you can write them offline Now I do recommend you eventually moving to doing everything offline But that of course this is highly more customizable you can do a lot more stuff with this But it is a little bit more work to get the kind of setup you want So you might want to start with an online service and there are many of these There's stuff like Overleaf or the one I'm familiar with is Share LaTeX. I actually have a pulled it up here So this is Share LaTeX. It's actually pretty simple. You can just go here make an account and start writing You know the setup is pretty simple You have you know you write the code here you can upload files to use in it like images, whatever And then you have a preview window over here and you can pretty much just update it and make whatever changes you want Let's make some changes and you press the recompile button and if it detects some kind of error It's going to notify you about that and it's gonna print out the log. So that's pretty convenient So that's you know an option. So Share LaTeX, of course I think I just said it's where I started. It's a great you know You don't have to worry about setting anything up. Everything's just there for you But of course if you want to move on to an offline using an offline editor I do recommend you using that eventually But of course there are many different ways for you to do it. You can use Vim you can use Emacs You can use a lot of other stuff Now the first thing you want to do is actually install the packages That is you so you can actually run, you know, LaTeX and compile documents some Linux distros actually start out with it But I do recommend you not just installing the compiler But really all the different packages That the you know LaTeX uses because there's the core compiler and there's actually all this other stuff that you know The different packages you can evoke and I really just recommend you installing all of those Because otherwise you're gonna start making a document and then you're gonna have to stop every five seconds and be like Oh, I have to download this other package and it's just annoying Now some of it some of it's automated, but it's still sort of a pain. I just recommend you doing it all So to install it on different platforms I'll just go ahead and say we'll do the windows and Mac first because they don't get enough, you know time on my Channel so on for Windows just go to mctech.org go to the download section and you want to get this net installer For what 64-bit or 32-bit and this is gonna let you download all of the different packages while you install That's probably the the best way to do it Mac OS is pretty similar. There's Mac tech Just go to the download page The Mac tech one is actually a little bigger. It's almost three gigabytes. So that's pretty big But that has all the packages you ever need Yeah, they're all there and of course for Linux, you don't even have to go into your browser You can just type it in your command line You command line depending on whatever distro you have. So, you know pseudo app get Install tech live full for Debbie and Ubuntu Linux mint whatever Debbie and base distro you have for Arch, of course, it's Wrong button on the wrong So for arch it's Pac-Man s tech live most and tech live Lang you don't necessarily have to have tech live Lang unless you're using different languages or whatever, but So anyway, it's it's pretty simple and once you do this you'll have not just lot tech, but all the different packages Installed now you can simply run it just by saying, you know PDF lot tech and then whatever file name And then that will compile that tech document or whatever But of course there are many ways of doing this automatically. So you don't even have to think about it Now I have some directions for different things here the easiest they'll go ahead and say is probably tech maker I think this is in most Linux repositories. It's also, you know, it's you can get it free here It's pretty similar to share a lot tech, right? So you have the files over here You write the code and it's your preview window. So it's pretty convenient. It's pretty much as easy to use a share Lot tech. I've never really used this But it is an option There's also licks licks is a little different licks is a little bit more It's more like what you see is what you get now. I don't necessarily like Licks, but some people swear by it. Some people love it. You might want to try it out. Although it doesn't You might want to try it out. I have to have some experience with law tech So you get more familiar about what is law tech and what is, you know The actual output of lot tech, but licks is an option If you have emacs, there's octech If you have emacs, I assume you're smart enough to be able to look how to install that And if you use Vim, there are actually good jillion different things you can do I listed out in detail the specific packages I use So the package I use like actually let me bring mine up, right? So This is of course Vim and I have a package that will automatically generate a preview pane You can scroll on it. You could it will automatically update when I change stuff here So this is the Vim live law tech preview Vim live law tech preview Not the same thing as the Vim law tech live preview does a similar thing, but I like this one a little more This one still I guess less used one, but I like it a lot more So in order to install this just because you know people have asked You want to first off you want to have a Vim bundle manager or package manager? I have pathogen the directions are here But if you want to install pathogen you can just run these commands It might be in your you know repository or whatever depending on your distro Then you want to make sure you have these lines in your Vmrc. So open up your Vmrc, you know by Vim Vmrc and once you do that you should see you know I don't know what you'll have but just make sure you have these three lines The pathogen and in fact syntax on and file type plug-in And after that all you have to do is run these Run these two commands and it will download the Vim live law tech preview And we'll throw it in the place that pathogen reads For different bundles or add-ons and after that you should be able to just jump into it and you know There's a you know guide to it, but it's pretty simple And to run so anyway, that's basically it. This is what all I use so again the directions are here I'll put a link to this in the video description Now if you have any other questions about different ways to compile a lot tech Feel free to ask them in the comments. I'm not familiar with so many different ways But I'm sure a lot of my viewers are so they can impart their knowledge There are a gajillion different ways to do this So if you have any kind of questions or vision you have Feel free to you know, indulge your desires. So anyway, that's about it. So I'll see you guys next time