All About Texlive in Lubuntu

It seems that using


sudo apt-get install texlive

is a bad idea. Rather use the procedure from the following link:
Following is a comprehensive guide for installing texlive in linux:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-ubuntu


Now, this is very crucial if we want to avoid  recommended packages: this might be good for large doc files such as texlive-extra-doc etc

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install lyx

This is how to manually install a particular individual tex-live package:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/38978/how-can-i-manually-install-a-latex-package-debian-ubuntu-linux


Here is how to remove texlive:

sudo apt-get remove texlive
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get remove tex-common

Then download and install directly from TUG. You can choose your operating system there. This has a bunch of packages and is much more complete than other distributions. Much better than sudo apt-get install latex.

 

Following code is to dowload it directly:

wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/texlive2012.iso

sudo mount -o loop texlive2012.iso /mnt

cd /mnt

sudo ./install-tl

 

 

Some issues related to installation was discussed here. Specially take note of

sudo apt-get purge command.

 

Here is a great way to find information about latex package:

 

I advise to recur to an installation by hand of a tex package only when such tex package is not available in an ubuntu package.

Searching for it with

apt-file -x search '/textcomp.sty$'

I obtain the following results:

texlive-latex-base: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty

and it say the tex package you look for is contained in the ubuntu package whose name is texlive-latex-base, so install it, if not already installed.

By the way, apt-file is a command to install separately from the apt-get package, and only a convenient and alternative way to search into the repositories the same way ashttp://packages.ubuntu.com/.