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I installed Texmaker and Texlive in my Xubuntu (basically = Ubuntu).
I want to use the kbordermatrix package, but when I compile the document in Texmaker I get the following error:
! LaTeX Error: File `kbordermatrix.sty' not found.
Is that suppose to install .sty automatically by Texlive or I have to make some setup?
I'm new to Linux, just recently changed to Ubuntu from MS Windows. I stuck on this problem for a whole day now. I would very appreciate someone can help me.
Cheers Lee
It looks like the .sty file is available here.
http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~kcb/LaTeX.shtml
If you run kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME In terminal, it should give you path to a folder called texmf/.
If you put the .sty file in a subdirectory of that file such as texmf/tex/latex/commonstuff/ then you should be able to run texhash [path to texmf folder] to have latex rescan the folder.
I took the installation instructions from here:
Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
texhash when installing into your personal texmf tree and doing so is pointless. That is, unless you have specified non-standard defaults for your installation. This is possible but there is no reason to think the OP has done this. By default, TeX searches the disk for your personal tree so just putting the files in place is sufficient.
– cfr
Nov 11 '14 at 22:21
texmf tree. So texhash is not necessary unless the OP has changed the defaults. (It doesn't matter whether it is a distro package or upstream - no sane packaging would change this. It is completely standard for TeX Live.)
– cfr
Nov 11 '14 at 23:37
sudo. As your normal user, domkdir -p $(kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFHOME)/tex/latex/kbordermatrixand then put the.styfile in the new directory. – cfr Nov 11 '14 at 21:53