General ⇒ Adding extra packages ubuntu

[Crysis85]

Hello,

I'm new here, trying to learn about LaTeX and being impressed on how powerful it is.
So let's cut to the chase.
I'm following a book with example and so far so good. On one example I need to use the package "blindtext" to fill the page with random text for experimenting on margins and stuff.
The problem is i get the message "! LaTeX Error: File `blind­text.sty' not found." when trypeset this simple code on TeXworks

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blind­text}
\begin{document}

\chapter{Exploring the page layout}
In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
\section{Some filler text}
\blindtext
\section{A lot more filler text}
More dummy text will follow.
\subsection{Plenty of filler text.}
\blindtext[10]

\end{document}

I'm pretty sure I did everything right. I installed the basic TeXLive pack from Ubuntu's Software center (texlive) and I installed the extra pack (texlive-latex-extra) witch contains the blindtext package.

So what I did wrong?

[Johannes_B]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Which version of TeX Live is installed?

I am not sure how ubuntu handles the TL sub packages, are you sure blindtext is installed?

Keeping a system installed ubuntu up to date is sometimes tricky. The easiest way to install TeXLive and maintain it with the package manager (tlmgr) is to install it manually, or with this simple script.

[Crysis85]

I solved the problem. I don't think it was really a problem since it was sufficient compiling the TeX file from console. After that compiling it from the editor worked too.
By the way, now I'm changing editor, using Emacs that seems definitely more powerful.

[Johannes_B]

Off topic: I am more the vim guy, i never was able to remember all those <meta>-sequences.