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I had been using the native Debian texlive on Mint Linux for a time, with Texmaker.

Now I installed the "vanilla" texlive, in order to have a better package control with tlmgr. However, I believe I have to do something on Texmaker, or perhaps somewhere else, in order to recognize the new installation, because it isn't finding the new packages I just installed.

For example, after successfully running tlmgr install mathdesign, Texmaker (running pdflatex) will output:

! LaTeX Error: File `mathdesign.sty' not found.
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    How did you setup the PATH? I assume that if you run kpsewhich mathdesign.sty in a terminal then you get what you expected? Note setting the PATH in say .bashrc is not enough, that addition will not be seen by programmes stared via, say, a menu. – daleif Jul 24 '12 at 15:31
  • I added the texlive bin directory to the path in /etc/profile. If I run kpsewhich mathdesign.sty, it returns nothing. – erickrf Jul 24 '12 at 16:57
  • Possible duplicate: How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu? – Martin Schröder Jul 24 '12 at 17:11
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    You should try to set the path in /etc/environment (and obviously, restart you desktop environment (log out and in) after doing that). In fact, /etc/profile is specific to bash, it isn't read by other shells (eg zsh) nor by all desktop environments. – mpg Jul 24 '12 at 17:38
  • @erickrf: Have you run mktexlsr or sudo mktexlsr to recreate the ls-R databases after installing the mathdesign package? – mhp Jul 25 '12 at 09:02

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You stated that you added the path in /etc/profile. But did you add it to the FRONT or the BACK of the PATH element?

There is already a TeX system installed on your computer, so the kpsewhich you are using is the one shipped by Debian in /usr/bin, and not the one from Vanilla TeX Live.

Possible solutions:

  • add the TeX Live directory to the front of the path
  • install a texlive equivs packages and remove all the texlive-* packages with dpkg/apt-get/aptitude (see http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html at the end for that)
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