Installed texlive, but can't find it on hard drive
Try the command
kpsewhich latex.ltx
to locate your TeX installation. On my system it gives the location
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
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Gabriel
Updated on August 01, 2022Comments
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Gabriel over 1 year
I am using KUbuntu 14.04 and just re-installed it after setting up a new computer. Instead of
texlive-full
I installedsudo apt-get install texlive texlive-lang-german texlive-doc-de texlive-latex-extra
from ubuntuusers.de. I also installed Kile.1.) Now, when I try to identify my texlive-folder or wherever Linux installed the stuff with
locate texlive
and/orlocate tex-live
I can not find it. So where is it? 2.) Also I don't know how to choose PATH fortlmgr
.I am really afraid of installing anything again or removing something, since last time, it just totally messed up everything big time!! Even dpkg was damaged and I had to set uo KUbuntu again. I really don't have time for this now, so what went wrong and what can I do?
Thanks for helping.
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musarithmia about 9 yearsThere's no program called
texlive
, so trylocate latex.ltx
. Also try enteringlatex --version
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Gabriel about 9 yearsHey. Thanks for the quick response. Will not find 'latex.ltx', sorry.
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Caramdir about 9 yearsRun
sudo updatedb
to update the database oflocate
or usewhereis latex
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musarithmia about 9 years
aptitude show texlive
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Gabriel about 9 years
latex --version
gave: `pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian) kpathsea version 6.1.1 Copyright 2013 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the pdfTeX source. ... -
Gabriel about 9 years... Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Compiled with libpng 1.2.49; using libpng 1.2.50 Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8 Compiled with poppler version 0.24.5` and
aptitude show texlive
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Gabriel about 9 years`Package: texlive Priority: optional Section: tex Installed-Size: 93,2 kB Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]> Source: texlive-base Version: 2013.20140215-1 Depends: texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2013.20130512), texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2013.20130512), texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512) Download-Size: 14,2 kB Homepage: tug.org/texlive Bugs: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Supported: 9m
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Gabriel about 9 yearsAPT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty/main amd64 Packages Description: TeX Live: Eine anständige Auswahl der TeX-Live-Pakete Die Softwaredistribution TeX Live bietet ein komplettes TeX-System. Es enthält Programme zum Setzen, zur Vorschau und zum
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Gabriel about 9 yearsAusdrucken von TeX- Dokumenten in vielen verschiedenen Sprachen sowie eine große Sammlung von TeX-Makros und Schriftbibliotheken. . Dieses Metapaket stellt eine anständige Auswahl von TeX Live Paketen zur Verfügung, die für die meisten Aufgaben genügen sollte. . Die Distribution enthält auch ausführliche allgemeine Dokumentation über TeX sowie die Dokumentation der enthaltenen Software-Pakete.` So what does that mean now? Before I had folders in
/usr/local/texlive/...
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Gabriel about 9 yearsBTW. - you guys are really quick....
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Caramdir about 9 yearsAccording to packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/texlive-base/filelist it should be in
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist
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Gabriel about 9 yearsIt is, thank you. Just ask myself, why
locate
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Caramdir about 9 yearsRun
sudo updatedb
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Gabriel about 9 yearsnot working, sorry
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egreg about 9 years
locate
doesn't find recently added files, because it does a lookup in a table that's generated periodically. One can force updating, but TeX Live has its own method:kpsewhich latex.ltx
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Nigel about 9 yearsthere's always the brute force approach:
find / -name texlive | less
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cfr about 9 yearsIf you install the upstream version (TeX Live 2014 using the net installer or iso), you'll have stuff installed in
/usr/local/texlive/
. If you install the version packaged by Debian/Ubuntu, you'll have stuff installed in/usr/share/...
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wasteofspace about 9 years@cfr: he said he installed using
apt-get
; that (on my machine) puts the stuff in/usr/share/texlive-bin
and/usr/share/texmf-texlive
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cfr about 9 years@wasteofspace Exactly ;).
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wasteofspace about 9 yearshe installed using
apt-get
, so there should be no immediate need to change the path list variable: my similar system haslatex
in/usr/bin
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blue_tiger300 about 9 yearsOops, should have read your question more carefully. @Gabriel: What is your problem then ? Why do you want to enter a path for "tlmgr". If you did install with "apt-get" then Kile will find it and you can start writing with it. The program "tlmgr" will only be available if you do a "TeXLive" installation independently from the xUbuntu sources.