R SIG Debian - May 2012 - Installing LaTeX class files not available in Debian packages

I apologize for abusing the list somewhat but there is some connection
to R.  Several of the example files in the knitr package for R use the
tufte-handout class, which, AFAICS, is not available in Ubuntu or
Debian packages (please correct me if I am wrong).

The source files are available at tufte-latex.googlecode.com (a.k.a.
code.google.com/p/tufte-latex) and I presume they should end up in a
subdirectory of /usr/local/share/texmf or something like that.  Is
there a standard approach to adding unpackaged class files?

Doug,

On 8 May 2012 at 10:56, Douglas Bates wrote:
| I apologize for abusing the list somewhat but there is some connection
| to R.  Several of the example files in the knitr package for R use the
| tufte-handout class, which, AFAICS, is not available in Ubuntu or
| Debian packages (please correct me if I am wrong).

Always glad to be of assistance:

  edd at max:~$ locate tufte-handout.cls
  /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tufte-latex/tufte-handout.cls
  edd at max:~$ dpkg -S `locate tufte-handout.cls`
  texlive-pictures:
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tufte-latex/tufte-handout.cls
  edd at max:~$ 

The package is arguably named a little awkwardly but there you go: "of
course" it is Debian.   I reckon that the aggregate file space of all the
texlive package I have installed is in excess of the disk size of my first
Linux computers...

edd at max:~$ dpkg -l|grep texlive|grep ^ii|cut -c-78
ii  texlive-base                                  2009-13
ii  texlive-bibtex-extra                          2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-binaries                              2009-11ubuntu1
ii  texlive-common                                2009-13
ii  texlive-doc-base                              2009-2
ii  texlive-extra-utils                           2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-font-utils                            2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-fonts-extra                           2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-fonts-extra-doc                       2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended                     2009-13
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended-doc                 2009-13
ii  texlive-generic-recommended                   2009-13
ii  texlive-latex-base                            2009-13
ii  texlive-latex-base-doc                        2009-13
ii  texlive-latex-extra                           2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-latex-extra-doc                       2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-latex-recommended                     2009-13
ii  texlive-latex-recommended-doc                 2009-13
ii  texlive-pictures                              2009-13
ii  texlive-pictures-doc                          2009-13
ii  texlive-pstricks                              2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-pstricks-doc                          2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-science                               2009-10ubuntu1
ii  texlive-science-doc                           2009-10ubuntu1
edd at max:~$

Dirk

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On Tue, 8 May 2012 10:56:10 -0500,
Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I apologize for abusing the list somewhat but there is some connection
> to R.  Several of the example files in the knitr package for R use the
> tufte-handout class, which, AFAICS, is not available in Ubuntu or
> Debian packages (please correct me if I am wrong).
> The source files are available at tufte-latex.googlecode.com (a.k.a.
> code.google.com/p/tufte-latex) and I presume they should end up in a
> subdirectory of /usr/local/share/texmf or something like that.  Is
> there a standard approach to adding unpackaged class files?
AFAIK, the standard approach is to duplicate the directory structure of
/usr/share/texmf under /usr/local/share/texmf and then place the
different files of the package (LaTeX) where they belong (Peter Flynn's
book, available online, has a good overview of this) under the latter.
cpio is great to replicate directory structures in one fell swoop.  By
default in Debian, /usr/local/share/texmf is inspected by mktexlsr to
update the LaTeX database, so it's run automatically by Debian packages
that need to do so.  However, you'd need to run it manually after
placing and building the files (if necessary) to make the package
immediately available.

Cheers,

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Seb