--- title: Install OpalaTex on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of OpalaTex for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - AI-assisted LaTeX editor and project IDE url: https://snapcraft.io/install/opalatex/rhel --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install OpalaTex on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux** # OpalaTex [gilzamir](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/gilzamir "View all snaps from gilzamir") * [gilzamir](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/gilzamir "View all snaps from gilzamir") * [Productivity](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=productivity) * [Science](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=science) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/opalatex/rhel#install) #### AI-assisted LaTeX editor and project IDE # OpalaTex: The Unified Academic & R&D Computing Suite **OpalaTex** is a free, open-source research and development platform designed to bridge technical writing, scientific computing, and artificial intelligence. Built specifically for researchers, data scientists, and engineers, OpalaTex eliminates workflow fragmentation by combining manuscript authoring, experimental code generation, data visualization, and private AI into a single, cohesive ecosystem. --- ## Key Features ### 1. Academic Authoring & Document Preparation * **Comprehensive LaTeX Environment:** Write and compile papers, theses, technical reports, and books with native support for complex mathematics, cross-referencing, and BibTeX/biber management. * **Beamer Slide Decks:** Build dynamic, modular, and conference-ready presentations with zero context switching. * **Google Drive Cloud Sync:** Seamlessly sync your projects, manuscripts, and assets across multiple workstations with integrated Google Drive backup and synchronization. ### 2. Scientific Computing, Experiments & Data Visualization * **Research-Focused Code Generation:** Prompt AI to generate, refactor, and audit simulation pipelines, data manipulation routines, and numerical modeling scripts (Python, R, Julia, C++). * **Publication-Grade Data Visualization:** Create publication-ready statistical plots, vector figures, and architectural diagrams (Matplotlib, Seaborn, TikZ, ggplot2) styled to match your paper's typography. * **Reproducible Research Pipelines:** Connect data, analysis scripts, generated figures, and the compiled document within one unified workspace to ensure complete computational reproducibility. ### 3. Flexible AI Assistance (Local Privacy & Cloud Scale) * **Local AI via Ollama:** Run open-weights models directly on your hardware. Analyze drafts, synthesize literature, and proofread papers with full assurance that confidential data and unpublished intellectual property never leave your machine. * **Literature Review & Article Analysis:** Interrogate research papers, extract key equations, and summarize methodologies with context-aware document analysis. * **Broad Cloud Connectivity:** Seamlessly switch to external providers when extra scale is needed, featuring native support for **Ollama Cloud**, **OpenRouter**, and any standard **OpenAI-compatible API**. --- ## The OpalaTex Workflow ```text [Raw Data & Scientific Hypotheses] ↓ [OpalaTex Assistant] → Generates analysis & simulation scripts ↓ [Data Visualization] → Renders publication-grade TikZ / Matplotlib plots ↓ [Manuscript Drafting] → Compiles LaTeX papers & Beamer slide decks ↓ [Google Drive Sync] → Automatic cloud backup & cross-device sync ``` --- ## Why OpalaTex? Traditional scientific writing treats coding, visualization, and typesetting as disconnected tasks spread across terminals, notebooks, and text editors. **OpalaTex** closes this gap by unifying computation with document production, providing a modern, private, and reproducible environment for the future of academic research. ## Tested Models Not all models work the same way. Small models, such as LFM 2.6B (quantized or not), do extraordinary things for their size, like searching the web and generating coherent text and LaTeX. However, they are terrible at correcting LaTeX. Large models, like DeepSeek-v4.1-flash, GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT 5.6, and others at the same tier, are very good at almost every task in the research workflow, from generating computational experiments to writing and correcting LaTeX. Quantized intermediate models, like Ollama's Gemma4 26B running locally, achieve good results in text and LaTeX generation, and even in code generation. However, the VRAM requirements needed to expand the local context window can severely limit their tasks without increasing hardware investment costs. The best open model was DeepSeek-v4.1-flash in all internal benchmarks. ### Package name * opalatex --- ### License * MIT --- ### Last updated * 16 October 2026 - latest/stable * 25 September 2026 - latest/candidate --- ### Websites * [opalacoder.com](https://opalacoder.com/ "https://opalacoder.com/") * [github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex](https://github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex "https://github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex") --- ### Contact * [opalacoder.com](https://opalacoder.com/ "https://opalacoder.com/") --- ### Donations * [www.paypal.com](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=DKWJSCLDJG6XY&no_recurring=0&item_name=Manuten%C3%A7%C3%A3o+do+Software+Open+Source+OpalaTex¤cy_code=BRL "https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=DKWJSCLDJG6XY&no_recurring=0&item_name=Manuten%C3%A7%C3%A3o+do+Software+Open+Source+OpalaTex¤cy_code=BRL") --- ### Source code * [github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex](https://github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex "https://github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex") --- ### Report a bug * [github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex/issues](https://github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex/issues "https://github.com/opalacoderdev/OpalaTex/issues") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/opalatex/rhel#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install OpalaTex Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward. The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below. The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command: ``` sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ``` Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended: ``` sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms" sudo yum update ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install OpalaTex To install OpalaTex, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install opalatex ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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