How to install verse package?

Question

How can I install the verse package? I did not find it in my Ubuntu 10.1. Through a Google search I went to:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/verse

and followed the instructions. It gave me the following error:

(./verse.ins
*** Generating the LaTeX2e package files ***

Generating file(s) ./verse.sty 
! Cannot find file verse.dtx.
\readsource ...ot find file \uptospace #1 \qStop }
                                                  \else \processedLines \z@ ...
l.56 ...e{\file{verse.sty}{\from{verse.dtx}{usc}}}

? ^C! Interruption.
\readsource ...t \refusedfiles \empty \csname b@#1
                                                  \endcsname \Name \let {b@#...
l.56 ...e{\file{verse.sty}{\from{verse.dtx}{usc}}}

?

Answer 1

If you installed TeX from the repositiories, look in the operating system package manager of the verse package in the comments to the packages. I list links to Debian packages, since Ubuntu uses Debian packages:

• texlive-humanities

  A collection of LaTeX packages for law, linguistics, the social sciences, and the humanities.

  This package includes the following CTAN packages: ....

  verse -- Aids for typesetting simple verse.

• or texlive-latex-extra

  A large collection of add-on packages for LaTeX.

  This package includes the following CTAN packages: ....

  verse -- Aids for typesetting simple verse.

Also apt-search can help, such as:

sudo apt-cache search verse | grep tex

You can install by Synaptic or another manager or on the command line:

sudo apt-get install texlive-humanities