Kile ⇒ Kile *refuses* to find .sty

[biddlesby]

Hello all,

I am running ubuntu lucid, kile, miktex, texlive, and trying to install a package bbm.sty. This was a breeze under windows using miktex package manager (mpm), but not so on Ubuntu....here's what I have tried:

1) Compile and install mpm. It runs and seems to create all the necessary files, but hangs. On compiling a file you get error: cannot find bbm.sty

2) Put bbm.sty in all of these locations: ~/texmf/, ~/texmf-texlive, /usr/share/texmf, /usr/share/texmf-texlive and run sudo texhash. All of the ls-R files there now list bbm.sty but kile still won't find it, argh!

3) Change all of the permissions for the ls-R files and the bbm.sty files from root to me

I have been trying this all morning and am now stuck, any help greatly appreciated

Harry

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Can you find it by kpsewhich at the command prompt?

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kpsewhich bbm.sty

Stefan

[biddlesby]

That's a really handy command, thanks. It didn't find it but---for anybody else with this problem---I found that putting the .sty in /texmf/tex/latex/bbm/ and then running texhash works.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Put bbm.sty in all of these locations: ~/texmf/, ~/texmf-texlive

You could check the location of the TeX home path:

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kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

Perhaps it's just not ~/texmf.

Stefan

[frabjous]

Try:

kpsepath tex

to see what paths are searched.

For me, ~/texmf/tex/ is included ~/texmf/ is not.

[Adam_S]

I am having the same problem with Kile.

kpsewhich finds the the .sty file under ~/texmf/tex/ and compiling with pdflatex or latex works at the command prompt (even using the terminal embedded in Kile) but if I use either the pdflatex or latex build tool it tells me the .sty file can't be found.