Beamer themes cannot be found / Ubuntu / I've tried every folder one can imagine

Question

I would like to use the theme for beamer called amsterdam (\usetheme{amsterdam}). I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Tex Live 2014. I've tried to place that beamerthemeAmsterdam.sty to everywhere, but it gives me error that it cannot be found.

I've tried these:

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/

/home/username/texmf/ <--- I created that texmf folder there.

/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/themes/theme/

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/

What is the problem? Default themes are in here:

/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/themes/theme/

but I cannot use even those; I get the same error!

I'm using Sublime Text as an editor (with latextools). Everything else is working fine.

Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. — , Sep 04 '14 at 10:34
Amsterdam theme is not among the default ones. You have to download and install it by your own and then run texhash to let your distribution know you have installed something new. — Claudio Fiandrino, Sep 04 '14 at 10:35
Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files? — Johannes_B, Sep 04 '14 at 10:35
Yes I ran texhash. Doesn't help. And I do know that amsterdam is not default theme, but that cannot be the problem cause even the default themes cannot be found. Any solutions? — Silouan Athonite, Sep 04 '14 at 10:46
maybe you need to type \usetheme{Amsterdam} (with a capital A)? — d-cmst, Sep 04 '14 at 11:04
Perhaps you have another tex system. Run some small hello-world document and check in the log-file the pathes of standard files like artice.cls. — Ulrike Fischer, Sep 04 '14 at 11:38
I think that @dcmst already had the right answer (in the comment above). Mixing up capital and lower-case letters in commands that get translated to file names is problematic. — DCTLib, Sep 04 '14 at 12:10

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '14 at 11:13

run in a terminal:

kpsewhich beamerthemedefault.sty

and you'll get the exact position of that file. However, that is the official directory, where personal files schould not go. There is an local texmf tree. You can get that directory by running

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL

On my system I'll get

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

In that directory create a subdirectory like

mkdir -p /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/beamer/

and put your personal file in there. Then run texhash from the command line to update the data base. A following

kpsewhich beamerthemeAmsterdam.sty

should give the complete path.

Beamer themes cannot be found / Ubuntu / I've tried every folder one can imagine

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