Latex - Manually add a package in Ubuntu

Posted by rolf on Monday, 27 July 2015

Sometimes the packages in Ubuntu are outdated (e.g. the geometry package in Ubuntu 12.04, see this forum) and it is necessary to manually include the package.

The easiest way for me is to just download the package from ctan, e.g. for the geometry package

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry

i.e. either download the .sty file OR both the .dtx and .ins file. Change directory to the download folder, open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and run following commands

cd /PATH/TO/FILE.dtx
latex *.dtx
latex *.ins

Some files are generated. Copy the *.sty file (e.g. geometry.sty) into the directory of your .tex file, on which you are currently working on. Then the document should compile using

pdflatex MyLatexFile.tex
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