[Tex/LaTex] Latexmk missing in TeXlive 2012

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I would like to use latexmk tools together with TeX Live 2012, but I could not find latexmk. Is it extra tools, or did TeX Live stop supporting it?

In my case, I have OS Ubuntu 12.10.

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Latexmk is a Perl script, and so can be installed on any system featuring a Perl set up: certainly Ubuntu has this! The latest code can be obtained from CTAN, and there are installation instructions there. Broadly, what you need to do is

Put the latexmk.pl where the 'system can find it' (~/bin is common for 'personal' scripts, or /usr/local/bin if you have root privileges and want a system-wide install).
Rename this file as just latexmk
Mark it as executable (chmod 777 latexmk)

There is a bit more detail in the docs for the script, but that should hopefully get you started.

Note that the 'recommended' way to have an up-to-date TeX system on Linux is to use the 'vanilla' TeX Live from TUG: How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?.

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[Tex/LaTex] Latexmk: makeglossaries, Biber and pdfLaTeX / Where to put latexmkrc

First, let's make sure your latexmkrc file is working. If you're not sure if the glossaries part is working, you could try something simple, e.g. changing $pdf_previewer (see the "List of configuration variables…" section of the latexmk documentation). You can put the file in the following locations:

Latexmk can be customized using initialization files, which are read at startup in the following order:

The system RC file, if it exists. On a UNIX system, latexmk searches for following places for its system RC file, in the following order, and reads the first it finds:

"/opt/local/share/latexmk/LatexMk",

"/usr/local/share/latexmk/LatexMk",

"/usr/local/lib/latexmk/LatexMk".

On a MS-WINDOWS system it looks for "C:\latexmk\LatexMk".

On a cygwin system (i.e., a MS-Windows system in which Perl is that of cygwin), latexmk reads for the first it finds of

"/cygdrive/c/latexmk/LatexMk",

"/opt/local/share/latexmk/LatexMk",

"/usr/local/share/latexmk/LatexMk",

"/usr/local/lib/latexmk/LatexMk".

In addition, it then tries the same set of locations, but with the file name replaced "LatexMk" replaced by "latexmkrc".

The user's RC file, if it exists. This can be in one of two places. The traditional one is ".latexmkrc" in the user's home directory. The other possibility is "latexmk/latexmkrc" in the user's XDG configuration home directory. > The actual file read is the first of "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/latexmk/latexmkrc" or "$HOME/.latexmkrc" which exists. (See https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html for details on the XDG Base Directory Specification.)

Here $HOME is the user's home directory. [Latexmk determines the user's home directory as follows: It is the value of the environment variable HOME, if this variable exists, which normally is the case on UNIX-like systems (including LINUX and OS-X). Otherwise the environment variable USERPROFILE is used, if it exists, which normally is the case on MS-Windows systems. Otherwise a blank string is used instead of $HOME, in which case latexmk does not look for an RC file in it.]

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is the value of the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME if it exists. If this environment variable does not exist, but $HOME is non-blank, then $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set to the default value of $HOME/.config. Otherwise $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is blank, and latexmk does not look for an RC file under it.

The RC file in the current working directory. This file can be named either "latexmkrc" or ".latexmkrc", and the first of these to be found is used, if any.

Any RC file(s) specified on the command line with the -r option.

(from the "Configuration/initialization (RC) files" section of the latexmk documentation)

So putting it in your working directory should work, just make sure there aren't any other latexmkrc files in the locations specified in 1 and 2. (On my Windows 7 machine, C:\latexmk\LatexMk works.)

Once you made sure latexmk finds your latexmkrc file, try putting the glossaries stuff back in.

[Tex/LaTex] Gummi Not Using TexLive 2012

you must change the order in the PATH-variable: Instead of

PATH            DEFAULT=${PATH}:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux

It should be

PATH            DEFAULT=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux:${PATH}

Because the Operating system uses the first command it finds in the PATH, it will use the latex/pdflatex which are installed by Debian, and not of your installation.

Out of topic: You can use "which latex" to find which comand is used. (Type it in the shell.)

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