gedit-latex-plugin software package provides gedit plugin for composing and compiling LaTeX documents, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gedit-latex-plugin
gedit-latex-plugin is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gedit-latex-plugin package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gedit-latex-plugin *
You will get with gedit-latex-plugin package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | gedit-latex-plugin |
| Version | 3.8.0-3build1 |
| Description | gedit plugin for composing and compiling LaTeX documents |
| Sub Section | GNOME |