After installing textgreek, lgrenc.def still not available

Question

I installed MacTeX's texlive 2014basic to avoid having to download too much all at once. One of the papers I wanted to build uses the textgreek package. Though I can install that with tlmgr

sudo tlmgr install textgreek

This still results in the following error when I try to pdflatex the paper

! Package textgreek Error: Cannot find the file lgrenc.def.

I can't figure out which tlmgr package to install to get that file generated. I wonder also if I should just be using a tlmgr generate command. But I can't tell what arguments I should pass to that (tlmgr help doesn't seem to provide a relevant example).

Is it on your system? Try kpsewhich lgrenc.def; if that doesn't return anything, then try locate lgrenc.def. — jon, Feb 20 '15 at 05:20
You need to install sudo tlmgr install greek-fontenc (and also babel-greek, I guess). — egreg, Feb 20 '15 at 07:37
@egreg: that gets me to a No file LGRcmr.fd and This NFSS system isn't set up properly. I guess that's progress. It's annoying that tlmgr doesn't seem to have given me the dependencies I need though when it installed textgreek — Michael Norrish, Feb 20 '15 at 09:07
@MichaelNorrish lgrenc.def is in greek-fontenc, as egreg mentioned. The LGRcmr.fd not found error is a problem with your usage. Concerning the tlmgr dependency comment: yes, tlmgr does not guarantee inter-package dependecies. We try to keep inter-collection dependencies working and up2date, but also this is not guaranteed. — norbert, Mar 02 '15 at 03:33
@norbert I have installed greek-fontenc, textgreek, babel-greek and cbfonts but I still get No file LGRcmr.fd. What do you mean by "...error is a problem with your usage"? — Mankka, Apr 24 '19 at 09:10
lgrcmr.fd is in the cbfonts-fd package ("LaTeX font description files for the CB Greek fonts"), — Alf Eaton, Jul 15 '20 at 20:49

carandraug · Answer 1 · 2017-11-20T11:51:34.470

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Note: this is a Debian, and Debian derivates, packaging bug and was fixed in texlive-latex-extra version 2017.20170724-1

The Tex package textgreek is in the Debian package texlive-latex-extra.
The Tex package greek-fontenc is in the Debian package texlive-lang-greek.
textgreek is dependent on greek-fontenc. However, textlive-lang-greek is not listed as a dependency of texlive-latex-extra.

If you are using a version with this issue, the solution is to manually install texlive-lang-greek:

sudo apt install texlive-lang-greek

edited Nov 20 '17 at 11:51

answered May 03 '17 at 17:12

carandraug

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I believe you meant sudo aptitude install texlive-lang-greek, without second 't' in 'texlive'. Otherwise this solution works! – Niko Z. Nov 19 '17 at 14:34
This fixes the problem on macports as well: sudo port install texlive-lang-greek. – Thomas Kühn Sep 25 '19 at 15:23

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '20 at 18:27

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Arch Linux solution:

pacman -Syuu texlive-langgreek

answered Apr 04 '20 at 18:27

de-arl

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The questions is about MacTeX, not Arch Linux. – Henri Menke Apr 05 '20 at 06:10
@HenriMenke still, useful for arch users googling the same error message – npit Mar 11 '23 at 19:05

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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The solution that I found was to also install the cbfonts and cbfonts-fd packages, as indicated here greek encodings under lyx, besides the two packages indicated by egreg. It might have sufficed to install only the cbfonts package but to be sure I also installed cbfonts-fd package.

Note: I am running Fedora so for other distributions and/or OSs, the packages name may differ

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community

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answered Jul 12 '15 at 14:23

andreibarbos

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I installed both packages, but this didn't fix it for me. :/ – Tyler Crompton Sep 18 '15 at 14:22
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What is the error message that you are receiving? It should contain information with respect to what additional package(s) is still needed. – andreibarbos Sep 19 '15 at 16:10
It was the same as was in OP's question before and after installing tohse packages. greek-fontenc is the package that fixed it for me (on OS X if it matters) – Tyler Crompton Sep 20 '15 at 23:44
sudo tlmgr install cbfonts fixed the issue for me. – dessert Oct 22 '17 at 13:32

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 14 '16 at 22:23

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Try installing some more additional packages like:

babel-greek
greek-fontenc
cbfonts

This solved it for me.

answered Apr 14 '16 at 22:23

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 22 '20 at 04:18

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Update 2020:

To solve textgreek.sty not found, you need to install texlive-science

sudo apt-get install texlive-science

Further details here: https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/kubuntu-17-10-latex-textgreek-sty/

answered Jun 22 '20 at 04:18

Gery

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After installing textgreek, lgrenc.def still not available

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pacman -Syuu texlive-langgreek

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