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Seems like the installation fails every time it tries to 'untar' a file. Seems to have restarted 11 times then stopped.

Now it wont reinstall, error reads

install-tl-ubuntu: checking for TeX Live environment variables...
install-tl-ubuntu: running apt and dpkg commands...
install-tl-ubuntu ...

Well I've run

sudo apt-get remove texlive
sudo apt-get remove texworks
sudo apt-get autoremove

and that seems to have cleared out most of the old files. I've now extracted the script from

https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu

and am running

sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu

Hopefully ...

Hey thanks for the response.

You think I should sudo rm /usr/local/tex* and /usr/share/tex* and just try again with the installation method you posted?

I'm a bit worried about leaving hidden files everywhere, and it seems kind of a waste to have to delete them all and re-download them.

Hi,

Originally I think I tried a bunch of methods for installing LaTeX, eventually finding by far the easiest method was to type
sudo apt-get install texworks
and hey presto there it is.

When it came to installing packages I realised that texworks only comes with a handful, and that "texlive ...

that looks great cgnieder. Only problem is I keep getting errors when I put \usepackage{chemmacros} in the preamble and I can't figure it out.

Console says:

Runaway argument?
{\(\underset {\bool_if:NF \l_chemformula_name_width_bool {\width_to_dim:Nn \ETC
.
! File ended while scanning use of ...

Thanks localghost.

Turns out I already had siunitx installed - quite new to all this! But, it doesn't seem to recognise "pH" as a unit and I couldn't find any information about it in the instructions [just to check i tried "\si{\meter}" and that works]. I guess I should just leave it as normal text ...

Sorry for asking a mundane question, but it's quite difficult to search for a two letter term.

Should I typeset "pH" in mathmode, or is it ok to use textmode? Technically it's a mathmatical function but I'm not sure...!

Thanks