General ⇒ How to find the texlive package to install ?

[thomasb]

Hello,
If we know the latex package to use, how can we find the texlive package to install ?

[Johannes_B]

Is the package on CTAN? Is the package included in TeX Live?
TeX Live offers the TeX Live manager or alternatively the TL Cockpit. Both have a search where you can find the package.

[thomasb]

1. Is the package on CTAN? Is the package included in TeX Live?

   For example, fourier, I know it's in texlive-fonts-extra and that I can install it with

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   sudo tlmgr install texlive-fonts-extra

   in Ubuntu. But how to find it if I didn't know it ?

2. TeX Live offers the TeX Live manager

   How would you use tlmgr :

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   tlmgr search --word --global fourier

   ?

3. or alternatively the TL Cockpit. Both have a search where you can find the package.

   And TL Cockpit is installed with :

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   tlmgr install tlcockpit

   ?

[Johannes_B]

What actual package are you trying to install?

[thomasb]

The packages are :

• stmaryrd
• tikzsymbols
• aurical

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Thomas!

You can do, at the command prompt in a terminal window:

apt-cache search stmaryrd

It returns the Ubuntu (Debian) package name. You can checke that one by

apt-cache show name

Also, you could search for files, such as

apt-file search aurical.sty

Stefan