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AN easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. Questions about how to use, install these binaries in Ubuntu.

TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.

TeX Live has been developed since 1996 by collaboration between the TeX user groups. TeX Live was originally perpetrated by Sebastian Rahtz.

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Why am I getting missing packages in Tex

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?
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TeX Live 2022 PPA on Ubuntu 22.04

Currently only 2021 version of TeX Live is available in Ubuntu 22.04 repositories. (Kinetic already has 2022 version however.) Is there a ppa with 2022 version of TeX Live that one could use without upgrading to Ubuntu 22.10 or installing TeX Live…
Iiro Ullin
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Tex Live 2016 - Problem with tlmgr

i've installed Tex Live 2016 using install-tl in order to obtain the latest version, however i have a problem with the tlmgr command. If i start the application with the command tlmgr -gui no installed packages can be seen: the obtained error…
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Fonts installed but 'multicols.sty' not found

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.
user10853
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Installation of TexLive 2021 problems

Well I am afraid that it is duplicate question but I have searched over 8 posts and haven't succeeded. I tried to install in Ubuntu 18.04 TexLive 2021/TL2021 (I am using texstudio). I had previously unsuccessfully downloaded TL2021 but continued…
Νικολέτα Σεβαστού
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texlive and /usr/local vs /usr/share

I installed a full texlive today. As usual, this produced two directories: /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex, and /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex Why there's so much duplication I have no idea. But that's another issue. The…
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ConTeXt issue after texlive-binaries update

I work in a group with six people, all with Jammy Jellyfish Ubuntu, and since last week we have no longer been able to compile tex files of the ConTeXt type. fatal error : unable to load bytecode register 544, maybe wipe the cache first system …
Jorge Sallum
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A partial update of Ubuntu 20.04 broke texlive. Can't reinstall

A partial update (sent by Ubuntu) of Ubuntu 20.04 broke my existing installation of texlive. After unsuccessfull attempts to install various parts of it I used apt to purge and remove it. Now I still can't install texlive or any parts of it. …
dburke
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