Re: [MiKTeX] Installing TeX packages on LiNux

[David A. <dra...@me...>]

Chandrasekhar S wrote:
> HI--
> 
>  I hope this question is related here.

<tongue-in-cheek>It's funny how that statement is only ever present in
emails to the wrong list</tongue-in-cheek>

> Could anyone please explain me as to how to install packages in Linux.

For MiKTeX on Linux (otherwise known as MiKTeX Tools - see
http://www.miktex.org/unx/about), see
http://docs.miktex.org/2.8/manual/mpm.html

> I use fedora and installed TeXlive
> recenlty. Now i am in need of the fontspec package to be installed.

When talking about Fedora, you should always state the release number.

http://tug.org/texlive/pkginstall.html may work on recent versions of Fedora
(my box is still on F9 which doesn't have tlmgr) - I've never needed to
install additional packages on my Fedora box.

yum search texlive will show you the various texlive items packaged - it may
be that you need to install one of the more full packages. The future is
clearly going to change to make things easier:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive but as Fedora 13 only shipped
two weeks ago you'll have to wait five months to see if the new packaging
structure makes it to F14!


David