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I don't know if I have some misunderstanding of how tlmgr works, but I can't get it to install packages.

I want to install this package here, so I do 

sudo tlmgr install diagrams

but I get 

tlmgr install: package diagrams not present in repository.

I couldn't tell if this was because this was a collection, so I tried installing the more specific package inside it here,using 

 sudo tlmgr install taylor

but the same message appeared.

Blubber
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  • Indeed there is such package: diagrams is a collection of generic macro packages, which are individually available in TeX Live as well as MiKTeX. See this page on CTAN. – Bernard May 09 '19 at 21:11
  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Not all packages listed on that site are already included in TeX Live. You can install them manually, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73016/how-do-i-install-an-individual-package-on-a-linux-system – siracusa May 09 '19 at 21:13
  • The taylor package is not in TeX Live - the package is a bit strange, the code is mostly (intentionally) obfusciated by the author, and there is a notion of a 'time bomb' which is a date after which the package does not run, and the author of the package is also not really community-minded (see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/176573). You can install the package manually if you want - but there are also other more modern packages with good documentation and many features available, such as tikz-cd (which is in TeX Live). – Marijn May 09 '19 at 21:23
  • So is the reason it doesn't work is because tlmgr can only install packages that come with TexLive and can't install arbitrary CTAN packages? – Blubber May 09 '19 at 21:40

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