question regarding installation of packages

[Semih Ozlem]

Thank you, I will do that. and get back to you.

Stephen Kellat <smkellat at icloud.com>, 25 Tem 2020 Cmt, 19:32 tarihinde şunu
yazdı:

> So that we can better narrow down exactly what you are running could you
> please open a terminal session, paste and run the following command stanza
> without quotation marks, and then reply to us with the output?  The stanza
> in question is:
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> “lsb_release -a && uname -a”
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> That would let us get a much better understanding of exactly what you are
> running so that we can target answers appropriately.
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> Stephen Michael Kellat
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> Member, Xubuntu Documentation
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> Ubuntu Member
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> *From: *Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, July 25, 2020 11:13 AM
> *To: *texhax at tug.org
> *Subject: *question regarding installation of packages
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> Hi all,
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> I am working with debian 10.2 gnome nonfree or Ubuntu 18 19 20. I
> installed texlive from the debian repository. Since I am running from live
> usb, I can not install the full texlive version because attempting to do so
> gives no space left on disk error. Question1: Is there a way to circumvent
> this by specifying possibly an external memory source or usb to make
> installations to and run programs from, or does this have to do with
> running debian or ubuntu from a live version as opposed to a full
> installation and there is no way to remedy this.
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> Second question is I am trying to in addition install packages like xypic
> or beamer. When I try to do so by using tlmgr (or even just tlmgr updata
> --all) I get the message unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5
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> Is there a way to install a package manually. I tried doing this with
> xypic and followed the installation directions included in the zip file
> from CTAN's site. However, the directory structure on my machine does not
> seem to match entirely the directory structure suggested in installation
> notes. So I sort of used guesswork where to copy files. I was partially
> successful but I got problems with FTM (I think this was fonts metric)
> part. I get error messages. I am able to latex a file and I get some
> results but arrows do not appear in the diagrams. Does anyone have any idea
> how to fix this issue, and also for future purposes what are guidelines to
> follow when manually installing an additional package from CTAN repository.
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> Thanks in advance for your help and assistance.
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