[Tex/LaTex] Package “nth” is in CTAN, but tlmgr doesn’t find it

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I'm trying to install the nth package, which automatically adds and formats ordinal numbers in English.

The package is included in the default TeXLive distribution, but I had to install a smaller distribution on this computer for space considerations. So it should be in the repositories. When I ask tlmgr to install nth…

$ sudo tlmgr install nth
tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
package nth not present in package repository.

Does it go by a different name than that in CTAN / the tlmgr repositories?

Best Answer

Not all LaTeX packages have a dedicated TeX Live package for them. In particular, several small packages by Donald Arsenau are grouped together in a genmisc package. So

sudo tlmgr install genmisc

should solve the problem.

You can see it in the CTAN page: http://ctan.org/pkg/nth

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Generally I recommend installing a full TeX Live and forget about hunting for packages; and updating regularly, also.

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