Installing TeX Live 2012 for Ubuntu 12.04

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TeX Live 2012 is scheduled to be included in Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal). There is also an offical "backports" PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) users. To install/upgrade to TeX Live 2012, follow these steps from the terminal:

1) Add the texlive-backports PPA with the following command:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa

2) Update your APT package index:

$ sudo apt-get update

3) Now install TeX Live 2012:

$ sudo apt-get install texlive

Note: If you already have a previous version of TeX Live installed, you can use sudo apt-get upgrade to replace step 3. However this will also update all other packages on your Ubuntu system.