TexLive (Ubuntu): Installing a new class

Question

I have a class file I have put in my local texmf directory (.texmf/tex/latex/classdir) and run sudo texhash but I am still getting a build error saying that my class file cannot be found. I have gone through the following posts to no avail

Installing a class

How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)

and the read me hasn't been much help either

https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-460006

(I'm on a brand new installation of texlive fyi)

What am I doing wrong?

pdflatex: /usr/bin/pdflatex /usr/share/man/man1/pdflatex.1.gz — RhythmInk, Oct 11 '18 at 23:09
I added sudo because I got this when I didn't
texhash: /usr/local/share/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: /var/lib/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... texhash: Done. — RhythmInk, Oct 11 '18 at 23:15
texhash .texmf succeeded just now though. Still getting a compile error — RhythmInk, Oct 11 '18 at 23:17
Are the file and every local directory it’s under world-readable? — Davislor, Oct 12 '18 at 00:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 23:54

I was able to get things working by putting my class file in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex which isn't texmf-local obviously but at least things are working. If someone else knows how to find that folder/create it since it doesn't seem to exist for me I'd love to know. For others having a similar issue using the directory above should work and then just use texhash.

TexLive (Ubuntu): Installing a new class

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