[Tex/LaTex] TeXLive with custom location does not find “biblatex.sty”

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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and installed TeXLive 2012 via download. I did not use the packages provided by Ubuntu. Since I don't have enough space I installed TeXLive to another partition. However, LaTeX won't find my biblatex.sty now. It is there.
If I run texhash it will update the ls-R files in the standard directories but not my custom directory.
How can I tell TeXLive to look in my custom directory for files?
It does find all my binaries.
I hope you can help me out!

EDIT
I still does not work from Texmaker but a simple bash script with the export as described below does the trick.

Best Answer

i do the same thing as you (12.04, tl 2012). i created a partition /local/texlive/2012 and installed tex live into that.

when i need to use tl (when i'm working for myself, rather than as a sys-admin for people who are using unadorned ubuntu tex), i add

/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux

at the front of my path. my bash command is

export PATH=/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH

which means that tl2012 will be searched before any ubuntu-installed stuff.

texlive is configured so that it will see the texmf trees, by default, from its knowledge of where it was installed.

the arrangement should work for you, if you can arrange your tree(s) to look similar.

(i've been using this arrangement since 2009 (i.e., since i was diddling with tl2009.)

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You very likely have your $HOME containing a final slash /. This expands to // after $HOME in the definition of $TEXMF and thus all of your home is searched.

By default $HOME does not contain this final /, so it might have been added locally in your init files.

Other than that, on Debian/Ubuntu TeX Live you change settings by adding lines to /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (creating if necessary).

[Tex/LaTex] Latex can’t find .sty files altough packages are installed — TexLive, Ubuntu 12.04

First suggestion would be, Check if the caption.sty file is somewhere on the system

$ locate caption.sty

If it is not installed, most probably the package is not on the basic configuration of texlive.

I used the command

$ apt-cache search caption | grep tex

and found the following packages

texlive-latex-recommended - TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
texlive-pictures - TeX Live: Graphics, pictures, diagrams
texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages
telxcc - Teletext closed captioning decoder

Install them,

$ sudo apt-get -y install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-latex-extra

and try compiling again!

Friendly advise

If you have hard disk space to spare, I would recommend to install texlive-full, which contains all the packages of the texlive version on the repository. So you have less chance to have this type of problems.

If you install manually

Make sure you add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc file

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux
export PATH
MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf/doc/man
export MANPATH
INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf/doc/info
export INFOPATH

Cheers.