How do I list the available classes in my installation?

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I am using TeXLive in Linux and want to learn and experiment. How can I list available document classes in my installation?

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You can do this by a simple script which finds all files in the installation path with the extension .cls — Marco Daniel, May 19 '13 at 07:33
Related How to print the list of packages installed on TeX Live to a file? — texenthusiast, May 19 '13 at 08:36

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 19 '13 at 09:53

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TeX Live maintains some text files where all packages/classes etc. are listed. The files are called ls-R and there's one for each main tree. In order to find all installed document classes in your main path you can do the following command:

grep "\.cls" `kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFDIST`/ls-R > $HOME/allcls.txt

After this process you have a file allcls.txt in you home directory with all existent document classes.

edited May 19 '13 at 09:53

egreg

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answered May 19 '13 at 08:05

Marco Daniel

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The location may not be correct. For example, on my Mac kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFMAIN gives /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf, but you want /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist. – Joseph Wright May 19 '13 at 08:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '13 at 08:13

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find `kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFDIST` -name *.cls

and if you have also a local tree:

find `kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFLOCAL` -name *.cls

answered May 19 '13 at 08:13

This is slow ;-) – Marco Daniel May 19 '13 at 08:14

How do I list the available classes in my installation?

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