ngerman.sty not found

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Whenever I try to compile my .tex file, I get the following error:

! LaTeX Error: File ngerman.sty not found. Type X to quit or to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: sty) Enter file name: ! Emergency stop.
l.3 \begin

Here's a MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\begin{document}
xyz
\end{document}

This happens even though the ngerman.sty package can be found in the following directories:

/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/latex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex

I also tried running the texhash command.

ngerman is absolutely obsolet. You should use babel with the language option ngerman — Marco Daniel, Feb 02 '14 at 15:58
As your document seems to find article.cls: Where is it according to the log-file? — Ulrike Fischer, Feb 02 '14 at 15:58
See: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/72893/whats-the-difference-between-usepackagengerman-and-usepackagengermanbabe — Marco Daniel, Feb 02 '14 at 15:59
Using the package \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} instead of just \usepackage{ngerman} I get the following error:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for (babel) the language `ngerman' (babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead. — Jurg, Feb 02 '14 at 16:02

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 02 '14 at 21:56

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Open a terminal (ctrl + alt + t) and run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-german

(4.) sudo apt-get upgrade

edited Feb 02 '14 at 21:56

Speravir

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answered Feb 02 '14 at 16:13

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I guess that you don't need (6). – Sigur Feb 02 '14 at 16:14
I think it doesn't do any harm, but I'll put it in brackets as it's not really necessary. :) – Jurg Feb 02 '14 at 19:44
Changed to (4.). – Speravir Feb 02 '14 at 21:56
Thanks. sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-german is sufficient on Ubuntu 23.10. – user4417 Nov 13 '23 at 12:12

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '19 at 11:26

The original poster appears to be on Ubuntu (I believe); this answer therefore applies to Debian and Debian derivatives in general, and thus to Ubuntu in particular.

It is probably sufficient nowadays to simply install the texlive-lang-german package in the usual way (using apt-get, aptitude, apt, Synaptic or whatever you normally use to install packages belonging to your Debian or Debian-derived distribution). Adding a PPA in order to solve this problem is probably not necessary.

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