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

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Tue May 8 19:27:13 CEST 2012


On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 8 May 2012 at 11:48, Douglas Bates wrote:
> | Thanks, Dirk.  I should have thought to run locate.
>
> Locate of course only works when you already have the file. What I do when I
> don't have the file yet (but suspect it is packaged) is to go here:
>
>   http://packages.ubuntu.com/
>
>   http://packages.debian.org

I have some luck with

wajig search <foo>

and also

wajig whichpkg <filename>

(which I neglected to use in this case and would have given me the
answer I needed).



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