How should I install the fullpage package under Ubuntu?

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I am using Ubuntu Software Center. I found the package, click Install and it says that the package is installed. BUT when I tried to compile my .tex file it says

LaTeX Error: File `fullpage.sty' not found.

When I typed in the terminal locate fullpage.sty nothing appears. When I typed apt-get install fullpage, it gives the following error:

E: Unable to locate package fullpage

I already did mktexlsr

What should I do in this case?

related How do I install an individual package on a Linux system? — Johannes_B, Feb 18 '15 at 22:26
@Johannes_B How does it seem? I've been told that I have to use fullpage package? Here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228902/which-package-should-i-install-to-have-the-fullpage-sty-file?noredirect=1#comment540246_228902 — user3371223, Feb 18 '15 at 22:32
texlive-packages are in meta-ubuntu packages. For example, apt-get doesn't show me fullpage. How does it seem? https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=oBPlVLqBCqaI8QfotoDwCw&gws_rd=ssl#q=ubuntu+fullpage+texlive But apparently, it is texlive-latex-extra; i messed that up. — Johannes_B, Feb 18 '15 at 22:35
@Johannes_B with texlive-extra I will get many packages, that I don't need. Is there a way to install only the package that contains fullpage.sty file? — user3371223, Feb 18 '15 at 22:37
Yep, get it from CTAN and unzip the file into you local texmf. Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files? — Johannes_B, Feb 18 '15 at 22:39
Note that unless you are very short of space, you will make life much easier if you just install a full version of TeX Live. LaTeX will tell you one package at a time what you are missing.... This is not a fun way to spend time.... — cfr, Feb 19 '15 at 04:46
@cfr I checked already and I really miss just this one. However it says that it is in the context-modules package, which I don't know how to install. — user3371223, Feb 19 '15 at 08:39
Just do as suggested above and download it from CTAN if that's what you want to do. fullpage is not a ConTeXt module. (At least, certainly the one you want is not if you are using LaTeX.) — cfr, Feb 19 '15 at 14:53
Note, you want fullpage which is part of preprint and not context-fullpage. (Unless you are using ConTeXt rather than LaTeX.) — cfr, Feb 19 '15 at 17:43
I solved this with sudo tlmgr install preprint, it seems that's the package in question. — Michael T, Jul 31 '16 at 18:53

Michele · Answer 1 · 2018-04-08T23:24:23.387

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Under Ubuntu, fullpage.sty is in the package texlive-latex-extra. You can install it with

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Since the documentation is very big (327 MB), I installed it with

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra --no-install-recommends

edited Apr 08 '18 at 23:24

answered Jul 15 '15 at 11:31

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Loren · Answer 2 · 2017-08-22T16:11:14.703

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If you installed via apt-get, you should install packages via apt-get, which does not currently seem to have a textlive-preprint package so you'll need to use sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

If you happened to install otherwise such as MacTeX or a manual install on Linux, you can use tlmgr to install the small preprint package sudo tlmgr install preprint

edited Aug 22 '17 at 16:11

answered Aug 21 '17 at 16:35

Loren

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How should I install the fullpage package under Ubuntu?

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