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In LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017/Debian), in order to use the standalone mode, I needed to add \RequirePackage{luatex85}, as in this answer. This method is called there a temporary workaround until standalone is updated. Now I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, which comes with LuaTeX, Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019/Debian), and luatex85 can no more be found:

! LaTeX Error: File `luatex85.sty' not found.

but standalone still does not work without it. In other words, this example

\RequirePackage{luatex85}
\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

does not compile, no matter if the line \RequirePackage{luatex85} is present or not. The error message is as above in both cases.

I copied /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/luatex85 from one distribution to another, it did not help. Can I somehow fix the problem?

scriptfoo
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  • luatex85.sty still exist but it looks as if you didn't install everything. check if there are more tex related packages that you can install. – Ulrike Fischer Mar 08 '21 at 08:14
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    you should not copy files by hand in to texmf-dist as that will confuse your package manager, but if you do, you need to run sudo mktexlsr afterwards to update its file lists – David Carlisle Mar 08 '21 at 08:18
  • I installed texlive-latex-base and even texlive-latex-extra. Anyways, sudo mktexlsr works, thanks. – scriptfoo Mar 08 '21 at 15:45

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You need to install luatex, for example via texlive on ubuntu etc :

sudo apt-get install texlive-luatex
chefhose
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