TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Package installation without tlmgr

[kronozord]

It is possible to install one package without breaking the texlive installation that comes with Ubuntu Maverik?
I need to update fontspec package badly, and since there is no way to do a tlmgr update on ubuntu i wander if there is any other way???

[frabjous]

It is possible to install one package without breaking the texlive installation that comes with Ubuntu Maverik?
I need to update fontspec package badly, and since there is no way to do a tlmgr update on ubuntu i wander if there is any other way???

P.S.: Sorry for the thread highjack.

Have you tried the instructions for manual package installation here?

Personally, however, I'd uninstall the Ubuntu packages and install TeXlive 2010 from CTAN. There are tricks to satisfy dependencies.

[kronozord]

SOLVED - just have to 2 parallel instalations, texlive 2009 and 2010

1. Edit the /etc/enviroment file as root and add the path directly,
like:
`sudo gedit /etc/enviroment`
2. then add the path, it should look something like this (if you distribution is 32 bit)

PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
3. logout or reboot
4. next puge kile out of you system
`sudo apt-get purge kile kbibtex` then
5. add this PPA https://launchpad.net/~koshi/+archive/ppa
6. update and reinstall kile

P.S. Just one note, when you do a `sudo tlmgr update --all` it wont work. You just have to do a `sudo su` then `tlmgr update --all`