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donpicoro

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 42

What texlive-* package provides a specific LaTeX file?[Solved]

Hi, I am a happy Archlinux user with almost 1 year of "heavy" arch-experience installing a maintaining about 5 different arch-boxes.

In my laptop I have installed the following texlive packages (according to a pacman query):

$ pacman -Qs texlive
local/texlive-bin 2009.4-3
    TeX Live binaries
local/texlive-core 2009.15574-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live core distribution
local/texlive-latexextra 2009.15565-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Large collection of add-on packages for LaTeX
local/texlive-publishers 2009.14714-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - LaTeX classes and packages for specific publishers
local/texlive-science 2009.14871-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Typesetting for natural and computer sciences
local/texlive-science-doc 2008.12088-1 (texlive-most-doc)
    TeX Live - Typesetting for natural and computer sciences

For me that is more than enough. But I need to compile a friend's presentation which asks for the file "pb-diagram.sty". Do not get me wrong, I do not want to install just that file. I know how to do that. This is not a question specific to that file or to install a specific packages downloaded from CTAN.

I just want to know if there is an efficient way to find out which one of the texlive-* packages listed in the TeXLive wiki provides the LaTeX package you need. Like for instance in this case "pb-diagram".

Any help will be very appreciated.

Last edited by donpicoro (2009-12-09 16:56:10)

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: What texlive-* package provides a specific LaTeX file?[Solved]

Use pkgfile (in the pkgtools package) to find packages containing some given file. In this case:

$ pkgfile pb-diagram.sty
extra/texlive-pictures

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-12-09 16:06:42)

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donpicoro

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 42

Re: What texlive-* package provides a specific LaTeX file?[Solved]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeet... :D:D:D:D:D

Great tool BTW.

Thanks.