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To locate binaries open the shell and type
$ whence latex
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First of all, you cannot see LaTeX like other fancy applications. In other words LaTeX installation does not include GUI.
If LaTeX is installed successfully, then you can simply call it from your terminal. To check if it is really installed, type this in the terminal:
$ latex -v
This should output the version information of installed LaTeX.
If that is ...
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For TeXstudio, the answer is go to Options/Configure TeXstudio/Commands/pdflatex
"/bin/texliveonfly" %.tex
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This requires a bit of debugging... Do you have a /etc/fonts/fonts.conf that references these fonts? It might be quite important as the code of luaotfload relies on this file. If it doesn't work on your system, it might be because of an update in fontconfig files which makes luaotfload code needing an update... If you want, I would be ready to debug it if ...
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While in MiKTeX an installation process is automatically triggered if you have, say, \usepackage{beamer} in a document preamble without the corresponding package installed, there is no such feature on TeX Live.
The last statement is not true actually, as pointed out by wasteofspace in the comments there is the texliveonfly package that implements the on ...
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The environment variable OSFONTDIR will override fontconfig information. Specifying directories with a double trailing slash means "please recurse into subdirectories". For example:
OSFONTDIR=${HOME}/.fonts:/usr/share/fonts//:/usr/share/texmf/fonts//
EDIT: There seems to be an issue with Debian (and thus Ubuntu) texlive packaging, which provides a default ...
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put it into /usr/local/share/fonts/ or alternatively into your home directory into .fonts/.
Run mkluatexfontdb -v | grep "local/share" to see what's going on.
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