In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Overleaf on OpenBSD. Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor used for creating scientific and technical documents. This guide assumes that you already have OpenBSD installed and running on your computer.
To use Overleaf on your OpenBSD machine, you need to install a few dependencies such as Perl, Git, and Python. Open a terminal window and run the following command to install these dependencies:
sudo pkg_add -v perl git python
Overleaf requires TeX Live to run on OpenBSD. Use the following command to install TeX Live:
sudo pkg_add -v texlive_base
Open a web browser and go to https://www.overleaf.com/. Sign up for a free account and log in to your account. Click on the "New Project" button to create a new project.
Once you have created the project, click on the "Download" button in the top right corner. This will download a ZIP file of your project.
Unzip this file using the following command:
unzip projectname.zip
To run Overleaf, navigate to the unzipped folder using the following command:
cd projectname
Then, run the following command:
perl overleaf.pl
This will open Overleaf in your default web browser. You can now use Overleaf to create and edit your LaTeX documents.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Overleaf on OpenBSD. We hope this guide was helpful to you. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.
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