Install LaTeX in Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-full gedit-latex-plugin texlive-fonts-recommended latex-beamer texpower texlive-pictures texlive-latex-extra texlive-science texlive-publishers
Some LaTeX editors
LeD http://www.latexeditor.org/
TeXnicCenter http://www.texniccenter.org/
Texmaker http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
MeWa http://sourceforge.net/projects/mewa/
Winedt ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/winedt55.exe
TeXworks http://www.tug.org/texworks/
Kile http://kile.sourceforge.net/
LaTeXila http://projects.gnome.org/latexila/
Gummi http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi?page_id=6
Comparison of LaTeX editors for different operating system
Symbols list:
http://web.ift.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html
Some commands to run:
dvi file: latex file_name.tex
pdf file: dvipdf file_name.dvi
or
pdflatex file_name.tex
pdflatex file_name.tex