installing
I am fairly new to ubuntu and I just installed TexWorks. Everything works fine but can someone give me step by step to install packages. With Windows I used the MikTex package manager but I am lost on how to install packages for linux.
Please let me know the best and easiet solution.
Thanks
This is not the answer how to install the la-font, but maybe it is easier to install another handwriting font: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/schulschriften - it is part of TeXLive.
You can get a la-variant with \usefont{T1}{wela}{m}{n}
A MWE (including some other handwriting fonts):
\documentclass[english]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
% http://www.ctan.org/pkg/schulschriften
%Lateinische Ausgangsschrift
\usefont{T1}{wela}{m}{n}
Lateinische Ausgangsschrift (wela)
\blindtext
%Deutsche Normschrift
\usefont{T1}{wedn}{m}{n}
Deutsche Normschrift (wedn)
\blindtext
%Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift
\usefont{T1}{weva}{m}{n}
Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (weva)
\blindtext
%Schulausgangsschrift
\usefont{T1}{wesa}{m}{n}
Schulausgangsschrift (wesa)
\blindtext
\end{document}
The result:
In your home directory, look in the (hidden) files .bashrc and .bash_profile for lines that include your texlive 2012 path and remove the path. Then add these lines to your .bashrc:
export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
export MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH
export INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH
(If you installed texlive somewhere else, or aren't using x86_64, change the paths to point to the correct install directory)
EDIT: I seem to have misunderstood the original question. The above will make sure you're pointing to the correct version of TeXLive (sounds like you might have some 2012 packages installed via your package manager as well). If you want to use a TL installation from a DVD, but packages from your package manager (I don't recommend it, but that sounds like it's what you want to do), you can try creating a dummy TL package so that your package manager will think TL Is installed from it and the dependency chain can be resolved.
Something like the following (from the Tug package on Debian) should do the trick:
Tell APT about your TeX Live installation by building a dummy package using equivs:
At the step "edit texlive-local", edit the Maintainer field and the list of the packages provided by your local TeX Live installation as appropriate. If you installed scheme-full except collection-texinfo as recommended, the file should look like this example.
For more information, see this question.
Best Answer
Texworksis a TeX editor, not a TeX distribution (as far as I know). The way to manage packages will depend on which TeX distribution you are using / how you installed TeX. The most common are installing TeX Live either through Ubuntu's package manager (apt-getor a GUI version of it) or manually (tlmgr).apt-get
If you installed TeX through Ubuntu's package manager, everything will be handled through it too. Look for packages called
texlive-..., i.e., to installpstricks, use the commandThis way of installing teX on Ubuntu is common as it easy, but the drawback is that packages can be (significantly) outdated, as updates are infrequent.
tlmgr
Installing TeXLive directly (called a "vanilla" installation) is a little more hassle, but you get the benefits of an up-to-date installation.
There is already a howto on TeX.sx on how to perform such an installation: How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
As for how to manage packages, you will then be using a tool called
tlmgr. The full documentation is available online, and the short answer is that you install packages withand update the whole system with