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[Mashel]

Good Morning.

I am new to Latex. Have been using word all along, and have decided to try Latex as recommended by my supervisor.
I asking for assistance on how to download Latex-project, i am being directed to this link https://www.latex-project.org/, however struggling with finding where to download.

Regards

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

You can download TeX and LaTeX here: https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html

Stefan

[Mashel]

Dear Stefan

Thank you for the link.

However it seems like it takes long to download since morning it has been downloading and not yet finished. Is there a faster way of downloading? Its more than 8hrs now, below is what has been downloaded only 55/3966

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[Johannes_B]

Is your download speed usually that slow?

Ask your professor, he might have a copy of a reasonably new version as a DVD-image.