[Tex/LaTex] Trying to install esint package

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I am trying to install the esint package for latex to allow me to use symbols such as the double closed integral (\oiint).

I have downloaded the zip archive from ctan, and extracted it.

In the terminal I ran the following commands:

latex esint.ins
(generated esint.sty, uesint.fd, esint10.mf, mathint.mf, bigint.mf)

I copied the above 5 files to the root of my texstudio project folder. ie; the same directory where my .tex files are which I am editing and compiling with texstudio.

I then ran:

mf '\mode=localfont; \input esint10.mf'
(generated esint10.tfm)

I also copied this file to the root folder of my texstudio project.

In my tex file I added \usepackage{esint}.

On compile, texstudio just says process exited with errors. If I remove the line \usepackage{esint} then this error disappears.

I think I may have put the files in the wrong locations – perhaps only the .sty file should be in the root folder of my texstudio project folder?

What have I done wrong?

Best Answer

This question is old and you said in comments you were on Fedora which I can't speak for, but Ubuntu 19.04 provides the texlive-latex-extra package which includes esint and other packages.

sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra will install esint on Ubuntu.

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Let's see a simpler example than the TeX Gyre set of fonts and consider OpenSans, assuming it's not delivered as part of the TeX distribution.

The directory on CTAN form a rather complex subtree:

opensans/
  doc/
  fonts/
  source/
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Each one of the four subdirectories denotes a part of the TeX tree where we need to install the files; on TeX Live it would be

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

and the structure should be created if still not existent. So, for example, at the end we'll have

/usr/
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              opensans-samples.tex
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sudo mktexlsr
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Why using the "local" tree? Because it doesn't strictly belong to the TeX distribution, so it won't be touched by later updates to the distribution.

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Edit

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