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Closure of this question was unnecessary. My question is not a duplicate of the one linked to. My questions are Linux specific and ask for advice about using Kile on Linux. My question refers to more that style files. I have read the question that I have supposedly duplicated and none of the replies answer my question. Closure was unhelpful, misguided and basically unwelcoming.

I wanted to be able to cancel factors in the numerator and denominator with a dash. I searched this site and saw that I could use the package cancel. I tried to \usepackage{cancel}, but Kile didn't recognize it because it couldn't find the style file.

I found the web-page and have downloaded the style file cancel.sty. Sadly, I can't find where Kile keeps all of the style files. Even if I did find the folder, would I just cut-and-paste, or is there some more sophisticated process required to integrate new style files?

The problem is that I am a newbie to Linux and can't find where all of the files are kept. I found some commands for searching for files, but they either didn't work: the terminal claimed the (existing) file didn't exist, or the terminal started to list every file on my system.

  • Where are my style files kept on Linux Mint, using Kile?
  • Do I just cut-and-paste a new style file into the folder?
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look on our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format.
    – Heiko Oberdiek
    Jun 16, 2013 at 14:49
  • If you installed TeX Live via your package manager there is no reason to install cancel manually, it is provided by the texlive-latex-extra package.
    – d-cmst
    Jun 16, 2013 at 15:42
  • @dcmst Thanks for the reply. I have tried to usepackage{texlive-latex-extra} and I get the same error: 'texlive-latex-extra.sty' not found. Any ideas?
    – Fly by Night
    Jun 16, 2013 at 20:18
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    @dcmst has shown a link to ubuntu packages not latex package hence cannot be used \usepackage{texlive-latex-extra}. Type at terminal sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra to install TeXLive extra packages from Ubuntu/mint package manager. Once you install you should get cancel.sty installed as it's part of the ubuntu texlive-latex-extra package. Type at terminal kpsewhich cancel.sty to know if cancel.sty exists or not. Note Kile is just a IDE not a TeX distro like TeXLive.
    – texenthusiast
    Jun 16, 2013 at 20:26
  • @texenthusiast Thank you so very much! Like I said: I'm a total Linux newbie. I followed your instructions and it all worded perfectly. I can confirm that the cancel package is up and running. Thank you for taking the time to help. I'm really happy now!
    – Fly by Night
    Jun 17, 2013 at 18:54

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Not sure about Linux Mint - on Gentoo which should be following Linux standards, I look under

/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/

Don't forget to issue the texhash command as superuser after having added your style file.

You could also simply add cancel.sty to the working directory for your project, then it would be available for that project only.

On the newer versions of Mint (e.g. Sonya 18.02), when using texlive, it is under:

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/

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    On Debian it's in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ (Linux Mint is based on Debian).
    – pevik
    Nov 7, 2015 at 8:31

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