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I have quite some problems installing TeXlive on Kubuntu. I used the installation file provided by tug.org and followed the quick installation guide but skipped those steps

Interfaces to the installer: text, GUI, batch

and

Choosing a download host

since I worked with

./install-tl

Afterwards I set my PATH and tried 

tlmgr update --all

as well as

tlmgr --gui

followed by

couldn't find »tlmgr«, did you mean: ...

(I don't know the English version of this). Then I thought, maybe TeXlive is not installed properly, so I tried 

latex small2e

resulting in:

warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt /usr/bin/mktexfmt: 975: .: Can't open /usr/share/texlive-bin/debianize-fmtutil I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

What the heck is going on. I don't have a clue. BTW I am really new to Linux.

Sigur
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Gabriel
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  • If you want an easy, one-command solution, consider removing everything you've installed so far and using https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu – scottkosty Jun 24 '14 at 16:28
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    How did you set your $PATH? – Sigur Jun 24 '14 at 16:34
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    Did you install as root? If so, you probably want something like sudo `which tlmgr` ... as tlmgr will not be on the path for root. (I'm assuming a bash shell.) – Joseph Wright Jun 24 '14 at 16:35
  • @Joseph yes, I installed as root (sudo ./install-tl) as ./install-tl gave me: 
    ./install-tl: mkdir(/usr/local/texlive/2014/) failed, goodbye: Keine Berechtigung(no permission)
    – Gabriel Jun 24 '14 at 16:47
  • @Sigur I simply wrote: 
    PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
    – Gabriel Jun 24 '14 at 16:48
  • @scottkosty thanks, I will try it out. Anyway, what was my mistake? – Gabriel Jun 24 '14 at 16:49
  • I guess that your command to update the PATH is temporarily. When you close the terminal you loose it. Open a new terminal and type echo $PATH to see. I pass TeXlive to my PATH using the file ~/.bashrc. – Sigur Jun 24 '14 at 16:52
  • @Gabriel I'm guessing Sigur is right and that it's PATH related. – scottkosty Jun 24 '14 at 17:00
  • yes, it is PATH related. @Sigur: I will look for that file. – Gabriel Jun 24 '14 at 17:09
  • Welcome to TeX.SX! – jub0bs Jun 24 '14 at 17:10
  • However, if the path is set, I get this:

    gabriel@pc26:~$ tlmgr update --all tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/ftp-dir/pub/mirrors/www.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet You don't have permission to change the installation in any way, specifically, the directory /usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg/ is not writable. Please run this program as administrator, or contact your local admin.

     – Gabriel Jun 24 '14 at 17:10
  • sudo tlmgr update --all does not work. What now? – Gabriel Jun 24 '14 at 17:11
  • sudo su and then call tlmgr. – Sigur Jun 24 '14 at 17:11
  • Look at this highly voted answer, which shows in a very detailed way how to install TeX Live from TUG and live happy without any path problem. – egreg Jun 24 '14 at 18:52
  • @egreg I'm not sure /etc/environment should be used that way. Is that normal on Ubuntu? I'm not sure I'd want pam_env picking up my TL binaries... – cfr Jun 25 '14 at 00:56
  • Hey! Thanks everyone for the sound response. I think, I might got it going. tlmgr works as well. I had to use chown and chmod for some issues, but an example file is running with Kile. Another question: Since I messed up big time with the first installation. How do I install new packages, not listed in tlmgr (like mcode from mathworks) Thanks again (in advance) – Gabriel Jun 25 '14 at 07:41
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    @cfr Indeed, my suggestion is to add a file to /etc/paths.d/ – egreg Jun 25 '14 at 08:22
  • @egreg That sounds right. I don't have that setup but use /etc/profile.d but I know some setups do. – cfr Jun 25 '14 at 17:57

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