Problem installing latex-beamer ubuntu 18.04

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The way you have chosen is Windows-like.

Debian (thus and Ubuntu) ships TeXLive distribution in deb-packages via APT.

For Beamer you need beamer.cls file and other beamer*.sty files.

The beamer.cls file is located in texlive-latex-recommended package (see search results on packages.ubuntu.com.

All you need is to install this package

sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended

As the result you will have all needed Beamer stuff and then include this LaTeX package to your document.

The examples are located in texlive-latex-recommended-doc package.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

tkow over 1 year
I tried to install the beamer package using:
```
   apt-get install latex-beamer
```
but I get the answer Package 'latex-beamer' has no installation candidate. Then I followed a hint I found:
```
    add-apt-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa
```
and got: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/texlive-backports/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.

Any hints how to solve my problem?
- tkow almost 5 years
  
  Ended up downloading directly from sourceforge.net/projects/latex-beamer!
- N0rbert almost 5 years
  
  What is your Ubuntu version?
- tkow almost 5 years
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
- Marius over 4 years
  
  you should up-vote if it helped you
Mr Redstoner over 3 years

I'd like to call out that the first command OP tried matches the beamer documentation as linked by en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations I found this question after doing the exact same thing