[Tex/LaTex] Package babel Error: Unknow option `brazilian’

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When trying to compile any document containing the line:

\usepackage[brazilian]{babel}

I get the following error:

! Package babel Error: Unknow option `brazilian'. Either you misspelled it
(babel)                or the language definition file brazilian.ldf was not fo
und.

Additional info:

  • I get an analagous error when replacing brazilian by anything other than english.
  • I'm running texlive on Windows, so my way of managing packages is through tlmgr
  • Tried to uninstall and reinstall babel package and got nothing.
  • I sense something is wrong since babel is looking for the file "brazilian.ldf" but this is my output to tlmgr search --global --file "brazilian":
tlmgr.pl: package repository http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
biblatex:
        texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/brazilian.lbx
biblatex-apa:
        texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-apa/brazilian-apa.lbx
dvdcoll:
        texmf-dist/tex/latex/dvdcoll/dcl/brazilian.dcl
minitoc:
        texmf-dist/tex/latex/minitoc/brazilian.mld

So, no brazilian.ldf here…

UPDATE:

Looking at the comments and searching for portuges.ldf file, the following package install command solved the problem here:

tlmgr install babel-portuges

(ps: had to remove old .aux files)

Best Answer

If you don't have the language installed you can do it installing texlive-lang-portuguese.

Then the brazilian option should work.

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