Latex CV

Latex offers several packages to make professional looking curriculums.

One of them is moderncv. If you use a Debian-based Linux Distribution you can install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended lmodern

texlive-latex-extra: contains moderncv package and some insteresting others.
texlive-fonts-recommended: contains marvosym fonts needed for moderncv.
lmodern: contains lmodern fonts.

Trick:

To remove the ugly box that appears round our email address you have to edit moderncvstyleclassic.sty and remove \emaillink{} from \Letter~\emaillink{\@email}.

To install moderncv manually:

# mkdir /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/moderncv
# mv *.sty /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/moderncv
# texhash