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