How to get texlive to work? (Ubuntu)

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I am working on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.
I want to work with TEXstudio.

When trying to build my pdf I get error messages like:
File 'biblatex.sty' not found. \addbibresource
or
File 'blindtext.sty' not found.

As far as I understand, I do not have these packages installed. I thought, that that's what I need texlive for in the first place. I looked with apt list --installed if both are installed and got:

texlive-base,
texlive-binaries,
texlive-fonts-recommended,
texlive-latex-base,
texlive-latex-extra,
texlive-latex-recommended,
texlive-pictures,
texlive-plain-generic,
texstudio-doc,
texstudio-l10n,
texstudio/focal

Do I need more for it to work?
How do I install singular packages?
I am close to crying, appreciate any help!

Best Answer

As there are two ways to install TeXLive on Linux, it is important to know what exactly you installed. Since you mentioned

texlive-base, texlive-binaries, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-pictures, texlive-plain-generic

I will assume you're using TeXLive from Debian/Ubuntu.

This TeXLive is split into selveral Ubuntu packages (not related to LaTeX packages), and you thus need to know exactly which of these texlive- packages you need or you can install them all by installing texlive-all via apt-get.

If you want to keep it minimal, here is a tip:

Install apt-file via

sudo apt install apt-file
sudo apt-file update

then you can look up biblatex.sty via

apt-file search biblatex.sty

and then install the appropriate texlive- file from the answer.

Unless they changed the name biblatex.sty is in texlive-bibtex-extra

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i do the same thing as you (12.04, tl 2012). i created a partition /local/texlive/2012 and installed tex live into that.

when i need to use tl (when i'm working for myself, rather than as a sys-admin for people who are using unadorned ubuntu tex), i add

/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux

at the front of my path. my bash command is

export PATH=/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH

which means that tl2012 will be searched before any ubuntu-installed stuff.

texlive is configured so that it will see the texmf trees, by default, from its knowledge of where it was installed.

the arrangement should work for you, if you can arrange your tree(s) to look similar.

(i've been using this arrangement since 2009 (i.e., since i was diddling with tl2009.)

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You can find all locations that TeX will search for files using

kpsepath tex

The format is a bit weird: items are separated by colons, directories that should be searched using a ls-R index file start with !!, directories to be searched recursively end with //. To clean it up, we can process the output a bit:

kpsepath tex | tr ':' '\n' | perl -ne 'm-^(!!)?(/.*?)(//)?$- && print "$2\n"'

For each of those paths, you can find out which installed packages have put files under those paths using dlocate:

dlocate --package-only /path

(if you don't have dlocate, install it and make sure to run sudo update-dlocatedb). Putting it all together and eliminating duplicate package names from the output:

kpsepath tex | tr ':' '\n' | perl -ne 'm-^(!!)?(/.*?)(//)?$- && print "$2\n"' | while read path; do dlocate --package-only $path ; done | sort -u

For example, on my system, that prints:

asymptote
cm-super-minimal
context
dblatex
feynmf
gnuplot-x11
latex-beamer
latex-cjk-common
latex-make
latex-xcolor
latex2html
lgrind
lilypond-data
lmodern
pgf
preview-latex-style
tex-common
tex-gyre
tex4ht-common
texinfo
texlive-base
texlive-bibtex-extra
texlive-extra-utils
texlive-font-utils
texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-lang-other
texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-luatex
texlive-math-extra
texlive-metapost
texlive-pictures
texlive-pstricks
texlive-science
texlive-xetex
texpower
tipa

There's some stuff there that I wouldn't have expected, like gnuplot-x11, but dpkg -L shows that it includes a gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty. Who knew?!

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