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Where is TeXLive after i installed it via terminal ?
What i want
install LaTeX for Linux on Mint 14 OS
What i did
download LaTex from http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html
i installed this package: install-tl.zip
successfully installed ...
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telling luaotfload where to look for fonts
The documentation of luaotfload states that on Linux fontconfig is used to find the font locations. However all fonts I install in /usr/share/local/fonts edit: /usr/local/share/fonts(as I don't want ...
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Auto Package download for TeXLive
I use MiKTeX on Windows and quite satisfied with it. Recently I started switching all my tasks toward open-source alternatives, and in the course I would love to use Linux. But the problem is in Linux ...
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How to install texlive-fonts-recommended (from Debian/Ubuntu) into texlive2012 (from CTAN)?
while compiling my tex file, I am getting lots of this error --
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 0+540/600 --dpi 540 zplmr7v
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font ...
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TeX live 2012 full installation on gentoo linux
What is the "gentoo-way" to install the latest full TeX live collection?
I know the tex live installer script to install the complete collection manually, but I would prefer to "emerge" a gentoo ...
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Error during installation of TeXLive 2012 in Fedora [duplicate]
I am facing problems while trying to install TeXLive 2012 on fedora. I did the following-
Unzipped the package.
Navigated to the location of install-tl.
Typed in ./install-tl
I got the following ...
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Install custom .cls using TeX Live in local directory
Background
I have a .cls file that I would like pdflatex to use. I have read the following
How to make LaTeX see local texmf tree
Per-project texmf directory
Create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX
How ...
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3answers
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Which Linux distributions support recent TeX Live with package manager?
I am currently having massive issues getting TeX Live to run on Ubuntu 12.04, so I am considering running a VM on VirtualBox with another Linux distribution that has better support for the latest TeX ...
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Definition of the TEXINPUTS variable
I am using TeX Live 2012/Debian on Linux Mint 14.
I am wondering what the right definition of the TEXINPUTS variable is.
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2answers
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Fedora manual installation and dependencies
Following answers on this website (like: How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17? and Manually installed TexLive on Fedora 16 )
I installed texlive manually on fedora and it works flawlessly.
The problem I ...
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0answers
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Moved from apt-get TexLive to full install. How do handle this error? [closed]
I've moved from the outdated OS install of TexLive to the custom install. Everything seems to have completed fine. A package called csvsimple requires xcolor loaded. I've tried installing via tlmgr ...
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1answer
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Latex ignores blank space after capital letters
I am having a weird problem. When I compile my documents, Latex drops white spaces between words. This happens only after capitalized letters. For example,
R reports the standard OLS SE, instead of ...
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Copying LaTeX packages from another machine
I use a linux, windows dual boot computer. I have a full installation of MiKTeX on Windows, and have installed texlive-basic packages on linux. Can I copy the TeX packages from MiKTeX onto linux? If ...
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1answer
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Make LaTeX recognize local files in Dropbox under Linux
I have some local LaTeX files in Dropbox and have not been able to make LaTeX recognize them. It does find my local texmf folder, but that doesn't help me.
I am working under Fedora 17 and uname -r ...
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Why does pdflatex stall when called by NIS Users?
I ran into a very strange problem recently: I'm administrating Mandriva Linux in a networked setup where users authenticate via NIS. We noticed that pdflatex simply stalls with no error messages and ...
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problem with pk fonts with texlive in linux [closed]
I have installed TexLive 2012 on a Linux CentOS 5.8 via the user root. The installation has been placed at /usr/local/texlive/2012; but for some reason, some pk fonts were placed at ...
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TeX Live 2011 vs Ubuntu TeX Live
Is it worth the effort to manually install TeX Live 2011 on Ubuntu?
Has so much changed since 2009?
I am a new Ubuntu user coming from windows and have very limited
knowledge of Linux environment. I ...
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Problem with TexLive installation on Fedora 17
I just upgraded to Fedora 17 and tried to install TeX Live, as usually, by downloading the install script, install-tl from tug.org. When I run
./install-tl
I get this output:
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How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17?
On Fedora 17 I have at least 3 ways to use TeX Live:
Install it from the default repository (TeX Live 2007, very old)
Add a work-in-progress developer repository - is it stable enough? In the past ...
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Bug with texdef (currfile) in frozen TexLive 2011
To keep in line with the Q&A format:
I am on Ubuntu Lucid, with the frozen TexLive 2011, from where I installed texdef. Unfortunately, when I ran one of the examples from the help (and I ...
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Problem with loading font metrics file [closed]
Trying to make PDF output with pdflatex halts with this message:
Font T1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr8t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
After searching a bit I found that file ptmr8t.tfm is ...
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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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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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TeX Live 2011: tlmgr not using xz after system upgrade [closed]
I have moved my TeX Live installation directories from one computer to another when I bought a newer system. I simply did a tar cfj texlive.tbz /texlive/ (the root directory where I had put TeX Live) ...
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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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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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1answer
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Installing full version of Tex Live
For installing Tex Live by apt-get in Ubuntu, we have two options: basic and full. I installed Tex Live from source. The installed folder is 3.1GB with 104,030 files. Obviously this full version ...
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2answers
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texlive does not find sty file
I am on Ubuntu 8.04 and just install TeX Live with :
sudo apt-get install texlive-full.
I tried to compile my .tex file with TexMaker.
I get :
xcolor.sty not found
titlesec.sty not found
How ...
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Successfully installed texlive-full but can't find it
Why is it that I can't find any icons or shortcuts of my LaTeX installation?
I installed it using this:
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-full.
But when I look at my application, I can't locate ...
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I have a problem with installing tlmgr [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
tlmgr is not accessible after installing TeX Live 2011 on a Ubuntu system
My computer runs on Fedora 15 x86-64. I installed TeX Live using my package manager, but ...
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Installing and using XeTeX
I have tried to install XeTeX on my Debian system, but this does not appear to work. Here are the steps I took:
I loaded TeX Live 2011 with tlmgr -gui.
I loaded a repository.
I selected "not ...
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Linux forgets TeXlive2011 paths upon restart [closed]
I've been using texlive 2011 on Fedora for a few weeks successfully but every time I restart the computer the paths for tlmgr, texdoc and so on are forgotten.
I set the paths as root using the ...
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Where is TeXworks after installing TeX Live 2011 on Fedora 15?
I've installed TeX Live 2011 on Fedora 15 following the guide at the texlive site, http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html. I've got texdoc, tlmgr and so on working from the terminal but I can't ...
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TeXlive 2011 Pretest - Trouble with Synctex? [closed]
Is anyone else having trouble with synctex in the TeXlive 2011 pretest? My set-up is Emacs+Auctex+Okular (on Linux). I can't get forward-search/sync to work with TeXlive 2011. (I confirmed that my ...
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How does LaTeX find package files?
On a fresh install of TeXlive on a Linux box (Linux Mint 11) I get the following error message:
! LaTeX Error: File `scalefnt.sty' not found.
But the file is there:
$ find /usr/ -name ...
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1answer
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Correctly configuring TexWorks to work with TexLive (TUGs version)
I just downloaded TL 2010 but the packages don't seem available to TexWorks. Before I was using the version of TL supplied via Synaptic. But that was not being kept up to date so I had to download ...
