package that contains algorithm2e.sty for LaTeX

mrwolff mrwolff at bigred.unl.edu
Mon Apr 3 07:13:49 UTC 2006


Shelagh Manton wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:20:36 -0500, mrwolff wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I was just wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to get the
>>algorithm2e.sty package for LaTeX.  I can't seem to find an Ubuntu package
>>that has it, and when I manually downloaded it from ctan and tried to just
>>unzip it into the directory with the others, LaTeX still won't find it. 
>>Just looking for ideas on what the proper method of finding and installing
>>it would be.
>>
>>Thanks
>>    
>>
>
>You will need to move it to a TeX tree, in say /usr/local/share/texmf/ or
>even /home/yourname/texmf/
>
>By a TeX tree I mean a set of folders which has the same structure as the
>one in /usr/share/texmf/. You need to do this so that if at a
>future time the ubuntu latex package gets updated you will still have a
>copy of your algorithm2e.sty without having to redownload and set it up
>again.
>
>then you need to let laTeX know that you have this file. 
>
>run $ sudo texhash
>
>Latex should find it after this.
>
>There are some good downloadable books which give nice overviews on how
>latex works on ctan. Its worth the time to go through them.
>
>Shelagh
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>
Ahh, yeah I was missing the texhash,  thank you very much




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list