[Tex/LaTex] How to teach latex to find Sweave.sty? [Ubuntu 12.04; TeXLive 2011]

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I work on XUbuntu 12.04 and I have installed R 2.15. Since the package manager only provides TeX Live 2009, I use the following to install TeX Live 2011 on XUbuntu:

download install-tl-unx.tar.gz from Installing TeX Live over the Internet
tar -xzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
sudo ./install-tl # see TeX Live – Quick install (hit "I")

add the newly installed version to PATH (in .profile):

PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH

Whenever I compile a .tex document containing \usepackage{Sweave}, I obtain

ERROR: LaTeX Error: File 'Sweave.sty' not found.

Typically, one uses a symbolic link to teach (pdf)latex (actually, latexmk in my case) where to find Sweave.sty. I did the following:

cd /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/tex/latex # that's the tex tree obtained by kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFMAIN
sudo ln -s /usr/share/R/share/texmf Sweave

I also created a link named Sweave in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex (via sudo ln -s /usr/share/R/share/texmf Sweave). In both cases, I still obtain that Sweave.sty was not found (even after a reboot/texhash…).

How can I tell pdflatex where to find Sweave.sty?

If you need more information about my setup of R etc., just let me know.

FINAL SOLUTION

Alan's answer below is completely correct. The reason why Sweave.sty was not found in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex is that I installed TeXLive 2011 via sudo and so I also had to execute mktexlsr via sudo. The problem is (see sudo which mktexlsr vs which mktexlsr) that sudo mktexlsr updates only the old (2009) TeXLive tex tree. I found two posts that precisely address this (http://compgroups.net/comp.text.tex/texlive-not-searching-texmflocal/266185 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1843563). The final solution is to sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /usr/local/texlive. Then one can simply use mktexlsr (without sudo) to update the new (2011) TeXLive tex tree. Then, Sweave.sty is found as Alan described.

Best Answer

The reason why your link isn't found is that additions to the main texmf tree require the ls-R databases to be updated using mktexlsr. However, the usual place for local additions on a Linux system is ~/texmf. If you put your symbolic link in ~/texmf/tex/latex, then you won't need do anything else for it to be found.

You should never place files in any of the .../texlive/<year> directories, since they are for the actual distribution files and can be overwritten by updates.

If you truly need system-wide local additions (for multiple users) you can put them in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. If you put things here, you must run sudo mktexlsr to rebuild the ls-R databases.

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There are (at least) two parameters you may want to set, and two ways to set them (env var vs conf file) and finally you might want the setting to be system-wide or user specific. Since all this is more or less orthogonal, it makes like 8 possibilities.

First, you may change either TEXINPUTS or TEXMF. The former acts only of TeX's input search path, the later is also used by other tools (imagine the tree contains fonts, bibtex or makeindex styles, etc.) With TEXINPUTS, you should append (or preppend, if files from the new tree should override other versions) /usr/share/R/share/texmf/tex//, separated with a :. For TEXMF, should need to insert the same path where you want inside the braces in the current definition.

Second, environment vs configuration file. For the environment, adding something to TEXINPUTS is easy, but for TEXMF you need to copy the full definition, so that it may look like TEXMF='{$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFR,...,$TEXMFDIST}' (with an appropriate definition of a TEXMFR environment variable). Editing the configuration file goes the same for TEXMF, but it's less convenient if you want to change TEXINPUTS since you also need to edit the various TEXINPUTS.format for each format you intend to use. With and envvar, it is easier, since setting TEXINPUTS=:$TEXMFR/tex// in the environment will insert the appropriate TEXINPUTS.format from the conffile before the leading colon.

Finally, user vs system. If you chose to use envvars, I refer you to your favourite shell's (and desktop environment) documentation. For configuration files, it should be noted that, system-wide, there are usually two texmf.cnf files which are both read. You should edit the first one returned by kpsewhich texmf.cnf (in case of doubt, look at the comments in the file). Include only your definitions, eg:

TEXMFR = /usr/share/R/share/texmf
TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFR!!$TEXMFDIST}

(this is my preferred option btw). Note that if you use a packaged (by Debian or other) version of TeX Live, this may change, see Sylvain's answer. If you want to proceed for a single user, it's harder, because you should place a full (edited) copy of the original texmf.cnf file in some place (~/.texlive2010/texmf-config/web2c would be a ratonal choice) and defined an environment variable TEXMFCNF pointing to that directory.

I hope I didn't got you confused with too much choices, but I thought it might be interesting to explore the different options. If you have admin rights, I'd recommend editing the system-wide additional texmf.cnf to define a TEXMFR and adding it to the definition of TEXMF, as explained above.

TeXLive – How to Configure Kile to Run TeXLive 2011

Kile uses only commands like pdflatex. So you have to check whether the symbolic links are created.

Type in the terminal: latex -v

The result should be:

marco@ubuntu:~$ latex -v
pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
kpathsea version 6.0.1

I guess you don't get this output. In this case the TeXLive documentation is your friend.

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