[Tex/LaTex] How to install xindy on Ubuntu

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How can I install xindy package to use texindy?

I read this manual xindy.sourceforge.net/download-binary.html but i didn't get promised bin and man subfolders inside xindy-2.3 but this:

And I remember well, that few months ago I used texindy without any difficulties, probably then I installed it with some another package.

EDIT: I have installed texlive-full, and i read that xindy should be there. But apparently it is not.

EDIT2: I ran tlmgr list and got

xindy: A general-purpose index processor
xindy.alpha-linux: alpha-linux files of xindy
xindy.amd64-freebsd: amd64-freebsd files of xindy
…
xindy.x86_64-darwin: x86_64-darwin files of xindy
xindy.x86_64-linux: x86_64-linux files of xindy

Should i add some path for xindy to work to PATH?

EDIT3: searching for texlive gave me

./usr/share/texlive
./usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
./usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/texlive
./var/lib/tex-common/fmtutil-cnf/texlive
./var/lib/tex-common/hyphen-cnf/texlive
./var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/texlive

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Many LaTeX packages and related tools are also available in the official Ubuntu repositories and can be installed with apt.

The advantage of using this repository is that installing is easy, and issues with paths, dependencies, permissions etc. (such as in the current question) are usually avoided.

The disadvantage is that these repositories do not contain the latest versions, because of the long release cycle of Ubuntu. Therefore, already solved bugs may be there and features may be missing. For normal use however this does not tend to be a problem.

In this case: sudo apt install xindy, which is version 2.4-1.3 for 16.04 LTS. Ubuntu Yakkety and Zesty contain xindy 2.5.

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On Ubuntu 11.04, a Debian derivative, and Tex Live installed in /home/mas/texlive on an x86_64 system then the following additions at the end of ~/.profile:

PATH=/home/mas/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:/home/mas/bin/:$PATH; export PATH
MANPATH=/home/mas/texlive/2011/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH
INFOPATH=/home/mas/texlive/2011/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH

get TeX Live working without a problem, including latexmk from the command line.

I have the Ubuntu TeX packages installed as well but, where the same command exists in /home/mas/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux (or in /home/mas/bin/ for some manually-installed software) then that version will be used in preference.

I am using a locally-installed download of TeXworks with the modification you show: In Edit -> Preferences -> Paths frame the path '/home/mas/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux' has been put at the top of the list.

Coming on to latex-mk. This is not in the default list for TeXworks processing tools, although latexmk is (as LaTeXmk on my systems as they are not the latest versions: see the question latexmk-not-accompanying-texworks-0-5 for the change that TeXworks not longer lists latexmk in recent builds). If you want latex-mk and have it installed (it is not part of TeX Live but will probably be in the repositories for many GNU/Linux distributions) then it can be added to the list of processing tools. In TeXworks I added it via Edit -> Preferences in the Processing Tools frame, click '+' to add and fill in the new window appropriately (I used 'LaTeX-mk' for name, 'latex-mk' for program (no path needed unless you have more than one installed and don't want the default), and options '--pdflatex' followed by '$fullname') and that seems to behave reasonably. If you wanted to add any other processing tools the procedure is similar, though the parameters will probably be different, of course.

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The problem lies in the fact that you chose to create symbolic links for the executables in /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/<architecture> to /usr/local/bin.

With tlmgr there's the possibility to update them, but the action is not performed automatically.

However, my advices are:

Always install the full TeX Live
Never create symbolic links, particularly on Debian based systems

If you don't have strict space constraints, do a full TeX Live install. It would have avoided the problem of installing the XeTeX subsystem.

Changing what's in /usr/local/bin is dangerous as other system utilities may choose to install something there. It's better to change the PATH variable and the safest method is to write a file zzz-texlive.sh containing

export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/`uname -i`-linux:$PATH
export MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH
export INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH
unset TEXINPUTS
unset TEXMFCONFIG

and move it into /etc/profile.d. After a logout/login cycle, the PATH variable will contain the correct directory for the executables.

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