Why am I getting missing packages in Tex

Question

I am trying to install texlive 2012. I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I followed the instructions here: How do I install the latest TeX Live 2012?

but I now get error messages such as "ulem.sty not found". What did I do wrong?

What instructions did you follow, exactly? there are several answers in the question you linked. As far as I can tell, ulem.sty is provided by package texlive-generic-recommended - perhaps that particular subpackage didn't get picked up as a dependency? — steeldriver, Aug 28 '15 at 12:27

Petter Karkea · Answer 1 · 2021-05-06T12:48:37.607

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The answer from Luís might not be for everyone since it requires to download a lot of packages that you might not need.

ulem.sty can actually be found in a much smaller package (3 MiB instead of 1 000 MiB), namely texlive-generic-recommended:

sudo apt-get install texlive-generic-recommended

For Ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt-get install texlive-plain-generic

(as mentioned by rmobis in the comments)

edited May 06 '21 at 12:48

answered Jul 15 '17 at 08:53

Petter Karkea

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Wonderful. It worked fine and solved my problem with Jupyter Notebook. – Eric Duminil Jan 08 '18 at 22:01
perfect answer, no need to add an extra PPA – gilbertohasnofb Jun 30 '18 at 13:42
Better answer. Fixed an issue I had rendering markdown to pdf with pandoc; "File `ulem.sty' not found" – Toby Wilson Feb 15 '20 at 17:08
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For Ubuntu 20, use texlive-plain-generic instead. – rmobis Oct 06 '20 at 20:54

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 02 '20 at 22:32

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Use the following command sequence:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texlive-full

This will get you the complete TeXLive package constellation. It is over 1 GB of stuff, but you will never worry with missing packages again. Both texlive and texlive-base provide only a subset of packages for the economy of space.

edited Aug 02 '20 at 22:32

Eliah Kagan

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answered Mar 30 '16 at 13:42

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Why am I getting missing packages in Tex

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For Ubuntu 20.04