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I installed texlive-publishers for Ubuntu 11.10 but I don't know where all the class files got installed.

They look to be installed under /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex.

So with my rudimentary knowledge of linux I added /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex to my path in my .bashrc file.

I am assuming that Kile should be able to access stuff from this folder if I include a \documentclass[...] in my file.

I just want confirmation that what I did was correct because off late I've been messing up with my linux files and folders quite bad!

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  • If you installed the package with Synaptic (or equivalent) you shouldn't need anything particular. Adding to the PATH variable serves no purpose.
    – egreg
    Jan 26, 2012 at 0:04

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I believe you want to run (in shell) the executable texhash or mktexlsr to make things working. These programs handle LaTeX's file lookup. You should not need any PATH then.

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  • By 'rudimentary knowledge', I suspect he used APT (or some frontend) to install the bundle, which means texhash or mktexlsr should be unnecessary.
    – jon
    Jan 26, 2012 at 4:54
  • Should be, but I suppose that when he asks, he has a problem, and so far mktexlsr has solved all my problems with LaTeX searching files that were somewhere in its tree.
    – yo'
    Jan 26, 2012 at 8:25
  • @tohecz texhash and mktexlsr give me the following messages: écrivez> texhash texhash: /usr/local/share/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: Done.
    – dearN
    Jan 27, 2012 at 18:00
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    @DNA you should run it as root, try sudo texhash or su <ENTER><type your password> texhash (or the same with the 2nd executable)
    – yo'
    Jan 27, 2012 at 18:28
  • @tohecz I just did that and my terminal said the following: texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R... I am guessing thats a good thing...
    – dearN
    Jan 27, 2012 at 21:54

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