{"id":710,"date":"2009-03-02T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2009-04-09T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:21:17","slug":"latex-packages-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Latex packages on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I get sent someone&#8217;s thesis in the hope that I might be able to fix a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latex-project.org\/\">Latex<\/a> problem or two for them.\u00a0 I was recently looking at someone&#8217;s code on a newish Ubuntu 8.10 machine and when I tried to compile it I received the following error<\/p>\n<p>! LaTeX Error: File `setspace.sty&#8217; not found.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu package I needed was <strong>texlive-latex-recommended<\/strong> which I installed using<\/p>\n<p><strong>sudo apt-get install <\/strong> <strong>texlive-latex-recommended<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On trying to compile the code a second time I got the following error<\/p>\n<p>! LaTeX Error: File `footmisc.sty&#8217; not found.<\/p>\n<p>which was fixed by<\/p>\n<p><strong> sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These packages don&#8217;t just install footmisc.sty and setspace.sty for you &#8211; they install a whole host of Latex packages as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I get sent someone&#8217;s thesis in the hope that I might be able to fix a Latex problem or two for them.\u00a0 I was recently looking at someone&#8217;s code on a newish Ubuntu 8.10 machine and when I tried to compile it I received the following error ! LaTeX Error: File [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latex","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}