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Hello to you all and thanks for reading!

For a while I've been using LaTeX to type university math reports and such using TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2015/Debian, installed using apt) in my laptop with ubuntu xenial (I'm using a basic install). It's not a laptop with a lot of space, so I install the packages manually when I need them (and so far, when it comes to copying .sty files, I do it well). However, when I need to install somewhat more complicated packages (such as ec) I get crazy and eventually give up.

Why? I can't get tlmgr working for some reason. I'm not that expert in this subject, but for reading similar questions I think this is a path related issue (whatever that is). Right now, when I write tlmgr install ec I get this:

tlmgr: Cannot load TeX Live database from https://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet

The idea is to properly set up tlmgr to use it to maintain my install without nasty manual package installation. If you need further details I'll be happy to provide them either in comments or editing this question. Thank you all!

EDIT: So based on a comment I checked out this question and I first wrote which tlmgr. The output was /usr/bin/tlmgr. Then I wrote sudo /usr/bin/tlmgr install ec and this happened:

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
tlmgr: Cannot load TeX Live database from https://ctan.dcc.uchile.cl/systems/texlive/tlnet

Any ideas?

Jesús Isea
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  • Did you install texlive from the debian repositoiries? In this case I strongly recommend to get the packages from there as well. Using tlmgr in parallel with apt tends to lead to issues. – Christian Aug 04 '21 at 18:25
  • @Christian so then can you install packages using apt directly? And they are recognized directly by texlive? Okay I need to know more – Jesús Isea Aug 10 '21 at 23:30
  • Almost all packages I am using are available in the repositories. If you want to install all of them, you can try texlife-full and most packages are available in one of the texlive-[something] packages. – Christian Aug 11 '21 at 06:20
  • On Debian tlmgr is changed such that it can no longer install packages as Debian want you to install the latex packages via apt instead. This is super confusing since the Debian latex packages are bundles og latex packages. I'd recommend installing hhf apt-file tool, once installed and after you run sudo apt-file update then apt-file search package.sty will tell you which Debian pa kage provides thst package. – daleif Aug 11 '21 at 14:13
  • Okay this works perfect! Thank you @daleif – Jesús Isea Aug 12 '21 at 20:46

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