How to install listings package in Kubuntu for LaTeX?

Question

I installed LaTeX on my Kubuntu with those commands:

sudo apt-get install abntex
sudo apt-get install texmaker
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended texmaker

but I also need to use listings package for my assignment paper. How to install listings package for LaTeX here?

If the listings package was not missing, then what was the problem? Any error message? — njsg, Jan 28 '13 at 17:05

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '13 at 11:59

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I recommend you to use apt-file to search for the package that contains a specific file.

If you invoke

apt-file search listings.sty

you should find the package that contains listings.

On my system it's contained in texlive-latex-recommended that you have already installed.

To play it safe i would execute

texhash

to update latex's directory tree.

If you can't get it working after that i'm pretty sure that something else is wrong.

answered Jan 28 '13 at 11:59

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For me, `apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended` was the solution. Thanks for the tip about `apt-file`! – Ilmari Karonen Mar 13 '16 at 11:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '20 at 18:23

The solution proposed by the author or the question:

Ok it turned out that listings wasn't missing it was something different which caused the problem. I found a solution:

mkdir -p /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/floatflt
cd /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/floatflt
rm -f floatflt.* float*.tex
wget http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/floatflt.ins
wget http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/floatflt.dtx
latex floatflt.ins
texhash /usr/share/texmf-texlive

How to install listings package in Kubuntu for LaTeX?

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