question regarding installation of packages

[Stephen Kellat]

Generally helpful information like this should be kept on the list in the thread.

The 19.04 version of Ubuntu is past its End If Life date which means it is unsupported.  See: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2020-January/000252.html

Packaging TeX Live for Debian and Ubuntu takes quite a bit of work.  You can’t update from the distribution-supplied packages to something new you find on CTAN without some headaches.  Generally if you are wanting to be on the cutting edge of CTAN you want to make a vanilla install of TeX Live rather than use what is provided by Debian and Ubuntu.  Details on how to do so can be found here: https://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html#vanilla

Think about your usage needs before going down that path.  Any lack of integration between a vanilla install of TeX Live and the rest of your system would end up being for you to resolve as the system packagers generally tries to work such issues out with their packaged attempts first.

Stephen Michael Kellat 

> On Jul 25, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I run mostly Debian 10, but also Ubuntu 18 and 19 and 20 only recently. Here is the outputs as you requested.
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> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Debian
> Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
> Release: 10
> Codename: buster
> Linux debian 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 19.04
> Release: 19.04
> Codename: disco
> Linux ubuntu 5.0.0-13-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 15 14:59:14 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
> Release: 18.04
> Codename: bionic
> Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:16:15 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
> Release: 20.04
> Codename: focal
> Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-26-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 20 16:58:30 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Stephen Kellat <smkellat at icloud.com>, 25 Tem 2020 Cmt, 19:32 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>> So that we can better narrow down exactly what you are running could you please open a terminal session, paste and run the following command stanza without quotation marks, and then reply to us with the output?  The stanza in question is:
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>> “lsb_release -a && uname -a”
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>> That would let us get a much better understanding of exactly what you are running so that we can target answers appropriately.
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>> Stephen Michael Kellat
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>> Member, Xubuntu Documentation
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>> Ubuntu Member 
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>> From: Semih Ozlem
>> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2020 11:13 AM
>> To: texhax at tug.org
>> Subject: question regarding installation of packages
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am working with debian 10.2 gnome nonfree or Ubuntu 18 19 20. I installed texlive from the debian repository. Since I am running from live usb, I can not install the full texlive version because attempting to do so gives no space left on disk error. Question1: Is there a way to circumvent this by specifying possibly an external memory source or usb to make installations to and run programs from, or does this have to do with running debian or ubuntu from a live version as opposed to a full installation and there is no way to remedy this.
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>> Second question is I am trying to in addition install packages like xypic or beamer. When I try to do so by using tlmgr (or even just tlmgr updata --all) I get the message unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5
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>> Is there a way to install a package manually. I tried doing this with xypic and followed the installation directions included in the zip file from CTAN's site. However, the directory structure on my machine does not seem to match entirely the directory structure suggested in installation notes. So I sort of used guesswork where to copy files. I was partially successful but I got problems with FTM (I think this was fonts metric) part. I get error messages. I am able to latex a file and I get some results but arrows do not appear in the diagrams. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this issue, and also for future purposes what are guidelines to follow when manually installing an additional package from CTAN repository.
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>> Thanks in advance for your help and assistance.
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