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I am using Basictex on my mac, and using TEXMAKER as editor. I installed multirow package by

 tlmgr install multirow

command. And output is

 tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.space-pro.be/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
 tlmgr install: package already present: multirow

Its showing this error ! LaTeX Error: File `multirow.sty' not found.

I really do not know what is happening. Any kind of help appreciated.

ClimateUnboxed
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sukanta
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. I'm afraid your write-up isn't very clear. Specifically, what is the "it" in "It[']s showing this error"? What is returned if you type kpsewhich multirow.sty at a terminal prompt? Incidentally, what's your reason for installing Basictex rather than the full MacTeX installation? – Mico Mar 13 '16 at 16:00
  • @Mico, thanks for your quick reply. I am writing a project document. i I started downloading MacTex but somehow it shows network error, then i switched to Basictex, We [class mates] are writing document together. I took a file and tried to modify then its showing this error.kpsewhich multirow.sty at terminal showing /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/multirow/multirow.sty – sukanta Mar 13 '16 at 17:03
  • Since kpsewhich is able to find multirow.sty -- in the directory where it should be, no less -- it's puzzling that you're not able to load it via a \usepackage{multirow} statement. Maybe something else went wrong during installation of BasicTeX? All I can suggest at this point is to try to re-install BasicTeX from scratch. – Mico Mar 13 '16 at 19:23
  • Okay. Suggestion is taken. Should is still try to install MacTex! – sukanta Mar 13 '16 at 20:58

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On Linux this should work fine, if you install the package texlive-latex-extra

The Documentation is huge (some GB) and is not needed locally, so installation without docs via aptitude would be

aptitude install texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc_ texlive-pictures-doc_ texlive-latex-base-doc_ texlive-pstricks-doc_ texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc_ texlive-fonts-recommended-doc_
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  • This answer helps for other packages as well, it solved the ! LaTeX Error: File ``tikz.sty' not found error for me. – Bálint Sass Apr 25 '23 at 23:33
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On Arch Linux based distributions, this package is called texlive-latexextra in the standard repository.

sudo pacman -S texlive-latexextra
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Tom Kuschel
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Using Texlive Package Manager, install collection-latexextra with the following command:

tlmgr install collection-latexextra
ma.mehralian
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On Fedora:

$ dnf provides */multirow.sty

texlive-multirow-9:svn58396-45.fc35.noarch : Create tabular cells spanning multiple rows Repo : fedora Matched from: Filename : /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/multirow/multirow.sty

texlive-multirow-9:svn58396-48.fc35.noarch : Create tabular cells spanning multiple rows Repo : updates Matched from: Filename : /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/multirow/multirow.sty

$ sudo dnf install texlive-multirow
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On a MAC when I recently hit this problem I needed to uninstall texlive and basictex and install instead mactex

brew uninstall texlive 
brew uninstall basictex
brew install mactex
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  • I don't know what brew is doing, but MacTeX is TeX Live (for Mac). – cfr Dec 22 '23 at 00:54
  • ah really? now I'm really confused, brew install texlive works as well, but only when I used mactex did the multirow.sty error go away. should I delete my answer do you think? (ps: all my packages were up to date, so it isn't the case that I was reinstalling a newer version of the same package). – ClimateUnboxed Dec 22 '23 at 13:14
  • Like I said, I don't know what brew does or what it puts in texlive. – cfr Dec 22 '23 at 14:13
  • well apparently not multirow ;-) – ClimateUnboxed Dec 22 '23 at 16:47
  • Indeed ;). Very strange, but distributions call different mixtures different things. Perhaps the Brew Gods don't like tables! – cfr Dec 22 '23 at 17:01