Quick start on latex beamer [Ubuntu]

Beamer is a Tex class to make slide presentations. The advantages of Beamer over PowerPoint or OpenOffice:

• If you are creating slides from a larger document, you can simply re-use your LaTeX source material from that document.
• If you need mathematical content in your slides, you have the wealth of mathematical constructs in LaTeX to draw upon.
• The slides you create are multi-platform.

Installation on Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install latex-beamer

Create your own slides from a template
A good template can be found here. Note: compile it by PdfLatex, or press F6 in TexMaker.

Texmaker setup on Ubuntu 10.04

1. Install Tex Live packages:
   

   $ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base
   

2. Install a GUI, like Texmaker:
   

   $ sudo apt-get install texmaker