Installing a LaTeX package under Ubuntu

In two easy steps:

  1. Download, extract and create a directory under /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ if necessary. Copy the entire directory, or the single .sty file to that location. (You need to be root)
  2. Run “sudo mktexlsr

From the man pages:

mktexlsr is used to generate the ls-R databases used by the kpathsea library.  Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

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