media9 installation in Ubuntu 12.04
The media9
package uses quite a lot of features from the most current version of expl3
. As such, you either need to:
- Install both media9
and the support manually
- Install a TeX distribution that already includes it
The latter option is covered in How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?, so here I will focus on the first approach.
From http://mirrors.ctan.org/tex-archive/install/macros/latex/contrib, you need to download
Unzip all of these where shown by kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
(i.e. /usr/local/share/texmf
in your case) and then run texhash /usr/local/share/texmf
as root. This should add all of the new files to the hash, and you should be good to go.
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jipai
Updated on August 01, 2022Comments
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jipai over 1 year
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Kile for LaTeX document editing. I would like to use the
media9
package to embed videos and 3D objects (via.u3d
files) in a PDF document. I'm totally new in the LaTeX world. So I'm not familiar with package installation with Kile. Is there anyone who could help me to install the media9 package please?History:
LaTeX Installation:
- run in terminal window:
sudo apt-get install texlive cm-super gv spdf kile -y
=> At this stage no problem!
media9 installation :
download the file: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/install/macros/latex/contrib/media9.tds.zip
run the command in the terminal:
kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
--> terminal output:/usr/local/share/texmf
unzip it in media.tds.zip in
/usr/local/share/texmf
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run
sudo texhash
--> terminal output:texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
Moreover ls-R file seems to be well updated since it includes a lot of media9 stuff.
Then when compiling my
.tex
document an error message occurs saying:media9.sty is not found
I tried a lot of tricks I found on the internet. I installed
texlive-extra-utils
andtexlive-latex-extra-doc
and some other packages. Finallymedia9
isn't missing anymore, but nowexpl3 is not found
!!I installed
texlive-latex3
. It seemed to solve the problem, but nowl3regex.sty is not found!
Endless problems....At this address I found the list of required packages for
media9
. After installing all these packages,media9
should be running, am I right ? Could anyone please indicate which files to install relative to these packages? When installingtexlive-full
will I be able to runmedia9
?Any help would be highly appreciated :)
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egreg over 10 yearsDid you try
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
before doing the manual install? However, if you still have the TeX Live/Debian 2009 distribution, you're bound to every kind of headache. Don't manually install packages, the version on CTAN may want other packages that you don't have (at least in the required version). -
egreg over 10 yearsWelcome to TeX.SX! Your post was migrated here from Ask Ubuntu. Please register on this site, too, and make sure that both accounts are associated with each other (by using the same OpenID), otherwise you won't be able to comment on or accept answers or edit your question.
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scottkosty over 10 yearsAre you planning on viewing the compiled files on Ubuntu? To my knowledge, there is not a PDF viewer on Ubuntu that will do this correctly (even Acrobat Reader for Linux).
- run in terminal window: