Document Classes ⇒ Trouble finding packages

[cvp]

Hi, I'm very new to LaTeX and have recently had a hell of a workload dumped onto my lap in the form of creating my own stylesheet.
The way I'm going about it at this point is to take the work of previous, similar stylesheets and making the necessary changes. But I'm running into all kinds of minor setbacks that I've wasted a lot of time trying to find answers to.
I may be asking a lot of silly questions like this, but please bear with me because I don't ask until after an excessive amount of Google and forum searching.

Question #1: The stylesheet I'm using as a base uses the titlesec and titletoc packages, which I understand are pretty common but my installation of latex for some reason doesn't include (installed via aptitude in Ubuntu Linux 8.04).
However, I noticed that in my cygwin install on my Windows partition, I have a titlesec directory in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/, so I figured I'd just copy everything on over to the same place in my Ubuntu install.
So to be clear, I now have /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/titlesec/, which includes titlesec.sty and titletoc.sty, among a lot of other files.
The other packages that are actually recognized are in texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ as opposed to texmf/tex/latex/, so I copied the titlesec directory over there as well.
But it still gives me the error: `titletoc.sty' not found. \usepackage

I'm using Kile 2.0.0 in KDE 3.5.9 in Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron). I've tried restarting the program as well as not using it at all and just running latex and pdflatex, and I get the same errors.

So where exactly am I supposed to put the packages for LaTeX to find them?

Thanks in advance,
-cvp

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi cvp,

with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 you can install texlive-latex-extra, it contains titlesec:

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sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

If you just copied it you should refresh the package database:

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sudo texhash

Stefan

[cvp]

That did the trick.
Thanks a lot!

-cvp