[Tex/LaTex] How to install the algorithms package

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According to my ubuntu 11.04 my texlive is the latest version. But when I tried to \usepackage{algorithm} it says file algorithm.sty is not found. I read the algorithm.pdf manual and tried latex algorithms.ins in terminal and again it says file not found. So what is the problem here? I installed texlive using sudo apt-get install texlive but it seems to be missing some packages that were suppose to be included. How do I fix this?

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sudo apt-get install texlive does not install all packages from CTAN. sudo apt-get install texlive-full does that (well, it installs everything that was on CTAN when the package was created).

If you do not want to install everything, you can just install texlive-science which contains the various algorithm-related packages.

On Arch the equivalent meta package is texlive-most.

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Make sure you have all neccesary packages installed:

xcolor is provided by the package texlive-latex-recommended
titlesec is provided by the package texlive-latex-extra

You can install them with apt-get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra

You can also try to use tlmgr to install missing packages for the current user (tlmgr in Debian/ubuntu runs always in user mode).

The texlive distribution provided by ubuntu is usually pretty old. You might want to consider to install a newer version manually.

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actually this is a further comment on corentin's answer, but it exceeds 600 characters.

Since http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ is an Apache directory listing you can try downloading packages with wget. For example if you want to download l3experimental where xcoffins is a subfolder you can invoke wget like

wget --cut-dir=4 -np -R "index.html*" -nH -P ~/texmf -r http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3experimental/

wget --cut-dir=6 -np -R "index.html*" -P ~/texmf/tex/latex -r http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3experimental/

this.

-P ~/dir/in/home/directory/ specifies the local directory where wget should put your files.
-nH tells wget that you don't want to create directories named after the host i.e. ~/texmf/www.tug.org/*/*/ looks not so nice and latex won't find anything under ~/texmf/www.tug.org. But you can omit -nH and change the local directory to -P ~/textmf/tex/latex. Then you have a seperate directory tree that latex also searches.
whereby --cut-dir=x means that you don't want to create the first x folders of the uri in your local directory (you want to create ~/texmf/tex/latex/l3experimental/ or ~/texmf/tex/latex/www.tug.org/l3experimental/ instead of ~/textmf/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3experimental).
-R instructs wget to exclude all files beginning with index.html.
-r is for recursive fetch
the argument of -P is the directory where you want to save all those things
-np excludes all parent directories of l3experimental (of course you can find a more detailed description in the manual pages of wget)

but generally be careful if you download things with wget recursively it could mess up a whole directory tree. I would recommend you to first download the files in a temporary directory (for example with -P ~/texmftemporary) where you can examine the downloaded directory tree.

Since latex also searches recursively for packages in ~/texmf/tex/latex you don't have to bother if xcoffins is a subfolder of any other folder/folders.

Of course you can redefine things further if you write a little bash, perl or whatever script that is based on the above command.

Maybe this helps you!?

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