bugs on ubuntu 18.04

Dropbox icon not showing, resolved thusly:

killall indicator-application-service

sudo apt remove indicator-application

Installing tex on ubuntu 18.04 over the internet

Removing texlive:

sudo apt-get purge texlive-*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

According to tug (https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html):

First, just to be sure, 

rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/2018
rm -rf ~/.texlive2018

Then, download the installer (a Perl script) from here:

https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html

Then extract, move to the extracted directory, and run the installer. 

glossary

To use the glossaries package.

\makeglossaries in preamble, which requires xindy.

\printglossaries where the glossary needs to be printed.

run in terminal:

makeindex -s myDoc.ist -o myDoc.gls myDoc.glo (M-x shell to run in emacs)