[Tex/LaTex] Installed texlive, but can’t find it on hard drive

installingtexlive

I am using KUbuntu 14.04 and just re-installed it after setting up a new computer. Instead of texlive-full I installed sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-lang-german texlive-doc-de texlive-latex-extra from ubuntuusers.de. I also installed Kile.

1.) Now, when I try to identify my texlive-folder or wherever Linux installed the stuff with locate texlive and/or locate tex-live I can not find it. So where is it?
2.) Also I don't know how to choose PATH for tlmgr.

I am really afraid of installing anything again or removing something, since last time, it just totally messed up everything big time!! Even dpkg was damaged and I had to set uo KUbuntu again. I really don't have time for this now, so what went wrong and what can I do?

Thanks for helping.

Best Answer

Try the command

kpsewhich latex.ltx

to locate your TeX installation. On my system it gives the location

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx

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[Tex/LaTex] Successfully installed texlive-full but can’t find it

You should be able to run latex from a shell. Try to make a minimal file:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

Then save it in your home directory as test.tex and in your shell type pdflatex test. It should produce the test.pdf file. If the PDF is not created, report here what failed.

[Tex/LaTex] TeX Live — problem with install [Ubuntu, bash]; new packages

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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