Fonts installed but 'multicols.sty' not found

Question

I have both texlive-fonts-extra and texlive-fonts-recommended installed however I get 'multicols.sty' not found when compiling a tex file.

How do I fix this?

Update: the package is multicol without an s.

I thought it might be a typo however I copied this code to double check. — user10853, Jan 27 '18 at 19:01
Actually, you're right however the code still gives a (different) error. Could you replicate the result if possible? — user10853, Jan 27 '18 at 19:02
What error are you seeing? I took a quick look and it seems like you may need to define \familyname and \firstname in the preamble (even if empty) as described here Moderncv - undefined control sequence in minimal document. You may also need to remove the \ line break after the last \cventry{} . — steeldriver, Jan 28 '18 at 02:50
I updated my answer with @steeldriver 's edits and needed LaTeX packages. — N0rbert, Jan 28 '18 at 09:51
@steeldriver It was my bad. I had tried compiling it without the basic necessary fields. It works. Thanks — user10853, Jan 30 '18 at 21:48
TBH it really wasn't clear those fields needed to be defined - it's unusual for fragments posted on SE not to work out of the box, so I wonder if the package itself has changed (perhaps some default defs were removed)? — steeldriver, Jan 31 '18 at 14:12
@steeldriver They needed to be defined because it is part of the moderncv class. Some fields are necessary. — user10853, Feb 03 '18 at 13:31

N0rbert · Answer 1 · 2018-01-28T09:50:36.577

As far I can understand, the file multicol.sty is contained in texlive-latex-base package.

Try to install it with sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base.

For ngerman you should install texlive-lang-german with sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-german.

As steeldriver recommended, below is working TeX example:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{casual}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1.25in, left=1.25in, right=1.25in]{geometry}
\firstname{}
\lastname{}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\begin{document}
    \section{headline}
    \hspace*{\hintscolumnwidth}%
    \begin{minipage}{\maincolumnwidth}
    \setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{0pt}
        \begin{multicols}{2}
        \cventry{}{C\#}{basic}{}{}{} \par \cventry{}{UNIX}{basic}{}{}{} \par
        \cventry{}{vim}{basic}{}{}{} \par \cventry{}{\LaTeX}{basic}{}{}{} \par
        \cventry{}{HTML, CSS, PHP}{very basic}{}{}{} \par
    \end{multicols}
    \end{minipage}
\end{document}

It compiles normally from Gummi (sudo apt-get install gummi).

All needed TeX dependencies may be installed with

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra lmodern texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base

Fonts installed but 'multicols.sty' not found

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