I used to use LaTeX in Windows and there was Miktex Package Manager with which it was very easy to add a missing package. I wanted to install textcomp
to Ubuntu 11.10 and it requires me to download the zip from here and find the packages which are in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex
in my case, extract the zip contents to there, and update the packages.
Is there a package manager which does installation and removal in an easier way like the Miktex Package Manager in Windows?
Best Answer
I advise to recur to an installation by hand of a tex package only when such tex package is not available in an ubuntu package.
Searching for it with
I obtain the following results:
and it say the tex package you look for is contained in the ubuntu package whose name is
texlive-latex-base
, so install it, if not already installed.By the way,
apt-file
is a command to install separately contained in theapt-file
package, and only a convenient and alternative way to search into the repositories the same way as http://packages.ubuntu.com/.