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I have spent quite a few hours researching how to do this, but still cannot understand how to add a missing .sty file on my linux mint machine.

I have installed texlive by:

sudo apt install texlive-latex-base

I then tried to compile my .tex document:

pdflatex filename.tex

I got the error message that the endfloat.sty is missing.

So I tried to install it, by first trying to find where my sty files are:

whereis texlive

which returns /usr/share/texlive , then after a bit of searching I found the other .sty files are in their own directories within /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex.

I tried to make a path then to put my missing .sty file in using the sudo command:

sudo mkdir endfloat

which made the directory 

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/endfloat

I changed into that directory, and then did 

sudo wget https://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/endfloat.sty

But when I reran:

pdflatex filename.tex

Still it did not compile because it says the .sty file is missing.

Sebastiano
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user141844
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Run:

$ apt-cache search endfloat
texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages

Then install texlive-latex-extra:

$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Installation should go without any problem. Then verify:

kpsewhich endfloat.sty

The above should show where the style file has been installed.

And in future occasions, please remember that while manually copying style files may be interesting, this is challenging as well, you should know what you are doing.

Masroor
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