[R-sig-Debian] Installing LaTeX class files not available in Debian packages

[Douglas Bates]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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:~$

Thanks, Dirk.  I should have thought to run locate.

It turns out that I am still having problems processing the knitr
examples that use the tufte-handout class but I'm not entirely sure
why that is.