{installing} is for questions regarding the installation of (La)TeX or any editor or other tool related to (La)TeX.
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Direct connection from the CTAN package name to the files of the package
Is there a way to download the package files only be knowing the CTAN package name (which can be a (La)TeX package, class, bundle, font, etc.)?
I'm aware that http://www.ctan.org/pkg/<NAME> ...
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Using listings package without installing it
I am finishing writing a paper that uses the listings package. Sadly, the submission system I have to use for submitting my paper does not come with this package. Is there any way to use the features ...
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How to install titlesec and secsty packages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I update my TeX distribution?
How can I change the package repository?
Please help me to install packages. When I install the options for random repository ...
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Where should I insert the titlesec package? [closed]
I am writing a thesis and I want the chapter and its heading right aligned.
On searching in TEX I got an answer to download the titlesec package.
I downloaded it but I don't know where to insert the ...
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How to install and use the key fonts for a TI-Calculator in pdflatex or xelatex
This answer http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37550/4011 suggested that it should be possible to install a font which enables one to typeset the keys of a TI-calculator.
Now my question is, how to ...
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Sweave.sty Rd.sty on texlive 2011 (OpenSUSE 12.1)
I am trying to make Sweave.sty and Rd.sty globally available on my system. After reading related posts on StackExchange, I changed texmf.cnf, so that
kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMF'
results in
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How can I update TikZ/PGF?
I am searching a script that will do the following.
Removing all old PGF/TikZ files in my local texmf tree
Installation of all new PGF/TikZ in my local texmf tree of the csv repository:
PGF and TikZ ...
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tlmgr with Ubuntu TexLive
I installed TexLive through Software Center of Ubuntu.
However it does not contain tlmgr which is quite useful to update the packages.
Is it possible to use tlmgr with default TexLive?
If yes, how ...
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Local font installation problems
Recently I tried to reinstall the MathTimePro II fonts in my local texmf directory. I already have Lucida fonts installed which works fine. So I carefully copied all the relevant files/folders to the ...
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Update / Install the newest version of LaTeX3
The developing of LaTeX3 goes on. However some feature will be improved or added. The LaTeX3 team can't upload every day a new version to CTAN.
How can I install the newest version LaTeX3?
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linux latex template installation issue
I have ubuntu 12.04 and I'm trying to install the IEEE template to create a .tex document. I have tried both methods of the following tutorial, but none worked:
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acmsmall.cls not found [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)
I am writing this because I need a more efficient way to use the acmsmall class. The problem is when I add the ...
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Multiple graphics.cfg?
I'm using tex-live on a Ubuntu machine.
I got a customized graphics.cfg file (configuration file for the graphix package)
that I'd like to use as default on my system.
I've tried to locate the ...
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Installation of pgf
I was working with an old version of Tikz. It appeared I could not use some features, probably because I had an outdated version.
So I tried to reinstall a new version of pgf. I downloaded it and ...
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Problem using package 'algorithmic':: LaTeX-Result: 0 Error(s), 0 Warning(s), 0 Bad Box(es), 0 Page(s) [closed]
I am relatively new to LaTeX, and I am having problems with using the algorithmic package. Whenever I add the command,
\usepackage{algorithmic}
and try to build the document, the number pages ...
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How do I install psfig.sty in MacTeX?
I just installed MacTeX, and I'm trying to compile a document, but I get the following error:
! LaTeX Error: File `psfig.sty' not found.
The preamble is as follows:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
...
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How to install XyMTeX to work with TeX Live on Windows 7
I write my reports with LaTeX. I use TeXmaker plus TeX Live distribution. I want to use XyMTeX in a document when I wanna use \usepackage{xymtex} but there are errors. I don't know anything about how ...
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Using tfrupee with texlive in ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I have full TeXlive.
I wanted Indian rupee symbol. I downloaded tfrupee from CTAN. I did following:
unzip tfrupee.zip
cd tfrupee/
sudo cp -rv fonts/type1/tfrupee/ ...
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2answers
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Where do I get the everyshi.sty file from?
I've downloaded and unzipped the ms folder which supposedly has the everyshi.sty file; however, to my dismay, the folder has every other file but that one! As a result, I'm failing to run TikZ, since ...
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2answers
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Relocate MiKTeX 2.9?
On my Windows 7, 64-bit machine MiKTeX lives in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. I'd like to move it to D:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. Is there a mostly painless way to do so, or should I just reinstall?
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Install pbox with MikTex 2.9
I'm trying to install the pbox package on my MiKTeX 2.9 installation, and failing miserably. The miktex package manager fails with the message "Remote file not found". I got the package from ...
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install package on linux [duplicate]
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Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
I downloaded "algorithmicx" package and I want to add it to my latex search path on ...
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1answer
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Installing Texlive on Debian x86-64 Platform
I had previously worked with the texlive distribution provided in the Debian repository, but I came across many inconveniences as a result of it being outdated (no tlmgr; forced to manually update and ...
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1answer
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LaTeX installation query
I have just installed TeX Live 2011 using the install-tl Perl script on my extenal hard drive. What do I have to do next in order to get LaTeX up and running?
EDIT: i am using ubuntu 11.10. Terribly ...
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How to install Beamer in Mac OS X lion?
I am brand new to LaTeX, and needed beamer package for my PowerPoint presentation.
How do I install it? I have read something like this: ...
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Manually installed TexLive on Fedora 16
I manually installed TexLive on Fedora 16 because I need to use tlmgr and install some packages. Now I want to get Texmaker, which I installed with yum, to work with the manually installed TexLive ...
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2answers
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Why can't I install MacTeX or BasicTeX on my Mac?
I am a beginner for LaTeX and I was trying to install the package BasicTeX on my mac (version 10.7.3). Everything went well - downloading the .zip file from TUG, unarchiving--until I actually started ...
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Adding a CTAN package to a MacPorts-maintained TeX installation
I have installed TeXlive through MacPorts and now discover that I am missing some package. For clarity let's use a trivial example and say I am missing lipsum.sty.
I now have two options:
Option 1
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2answers
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How to setup texliveonfly, on any LaTeX editor?
I'm a novice in the world of LaTeX, and I'm struggling to find a simple tutorial on how to to setup texliveonfly as part of TeX Live 2011 in any LaTeX editor.
Is there anyone out there who's got ...
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Installing MinionPro in TeX Live 2011
I am having great difficulty to install the font MinionPro in TeX Live 2011.
I followed all the steps in the README file on CTAN, but I get the following error when compiling the text:
Process ...
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How to move TeX Live to another partition (/data)
I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (/data) and so reuse that partition for LyX-TeX after OS re-install, as well as share that TeX ...
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Problem regarding parcolumns package
I needed to use parcolumns packages which was not available on my system. I installed it and now am having some trouble. I followed following steps:
Locate the package sauerj on CTAN website. I ...
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How to install third-party modules for ConTeXt (MacTex distribution)?
I install MacTeX basic package and then install context by tlmgr. How do I install third-party modules?
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make flashmode work [closed]
I am not sure whether this is an appropriate question for tex.SE. Anyway: I am trying to use Flashmode, which I discovered reading the answers to this question.
Unfortunately I am not able to make it ...
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Checking I have LaTeX packages installed
I want to ensure I have the packages pst-pdf, auto-pst-pdf and pdfcrop.
I run tlmgr --gui and search for these and appear to install them.
However, if then do kpsewhich pst-pdf at the terminal it ...
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MikTeX 2.9, install packages on the fly?
I set the Install Packages on the Fly setting to Yes and try to compile my document in Texmaker, but I still get the error File [...] not found, where [...] is the package I need. Basically, I need to ...
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Having docstrip place files in different folders
I've written my own biblatex citation style and decided to put both the bbx and the cbx file in a dtx file to process that with docstrip. Now I would like to have docstrip place the files in my local ...
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How can I repair a Minion Pro font installation that lacks certain features?
I was overzealous in my installation of Minion Pro and accidentally installed metrics that I do not have. Specifically (it seems), I unzipped metrics-opticals.zip, when I shouldn't have.
As a ...
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About texhash and proper installation of TeXlive
So, I'm running linux Mint (but I guess the same applies to Ubuntu) and as is common knowledge, their TeX distribution tends to be slightly outdated. Now I can't have none of that and decide to ...
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TexShop and pdflatexmk: “env: perl: No such file or directory ”
on my (almost) freshly installed Mac with MacTex my TexShop cannot run the *mk scripts because of this error:
"env: perl: No such file or directory "
This is obviously a configuration issue with ...
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Do I need to run non-tlmgr tools each time I use Tex Live Utility to update Tex?
I've made some modifications to my TeX installation outside of the TeX Live Utility, which I use primarily, as a convenient way to keep my installation up to date. For example, I've added some fonts ...
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Can I install fonts from CTAN using TeX Live Utility?
I have the latest version of MacTeX installed, and want to add fonts from CTAN (or other packages) that are not part of the MacTeX distribution to my system. When I specify CTAN in TeX Live Utility as ...
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tlmgr error: perl.exe has stopped working
I have been using TeX Live 2010 on my Windows 7 computer for some time now, without problems. Recently I decided to use the TeX Live Manager to check for updates, which were successfully installed. ...
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1answer
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Executing Tex Live by SSH command
I installed Tex Live by apt-get on Ubuntu, and I could access to latex commands both in Terminal and in web scripts; e.g. in PHP by shell_exec('pdflatex -version');
On a similar machine, I installed ...
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If I have TeX Live 2011 how to install a previous version of biblatex (1.0)?
I install from the internet TeX Live 2011. I have to use MLA to write all my papers, and I have this problem: biblatex-mla sometimes \autocite[prenote][pg]{key} is not printing the author's name
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How to install system wide packages without requiring an ls-R database (with texlive)?
Question
How can I install packages for system-wide use, but without requiring the ls-R database to be updated?
Background
The texlive documentation indicates that user specific packages should be ...
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Installing and using user-defined package [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)
I have put together a user-defined package stored in a .sty file.
Using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 7, I've placed ...
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How to install the xpatch package in MiKTeX?
This is a follow up question to \nameref only shows reference as a red rectangle, no name in it.
In the answers to the question cited @Werner suggested to have the package xpatch installed so that ...
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Install packages on cygwin
I use latex for cygwin, installed by the cygwin setup GUI. How can I install other missing package? For example i haven't tikz... I've to manually install it or there is a better solution?
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Does standalone LaTeX exist?
Is there a standalone version of LaTeX that might run of, say, a USB stick? So a version that doesn't need installing. I am looking for something to run under Windows.
