Latex/Kubuntu: Nassi–Shneiderman diagram

[Spharx]

This whole linux thing is driving me nuts ! For every single easy step I have to google hours to get a (rather frustrating) result .
Now I am trying to make a Nassi–Shneiderman diagram with Gummi (laggy, buggy but close to real time pdf creation) and I don't get how or where I have to put in the xyling.sty package. I tried to put it into /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xyling/ and /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xyling/ but still the program throws out a error that the xyling pakacke is missing

Where do I have to put in the packages?? Why do I have 2 texmf folders ?

[ripster]

Shouldn't this be in the "Other Languages" subforum?

[Minskleip]

Have you tried ~/.texmf/tex/latex/xyling?

I think you can put it in your document root as well!

[webwit]

File permissions or security context?

Try
ls -l
and
ls --lcontext

in the directories where you found xyling.sty

[Spharx]

I have changed the package to nassi (nassflow) now and copied them to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/nassflow/ as root user.
ls -l shows this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5027 2012-01-09 19:03 nassi.sty

I found the problem I think: I should not jerk around as root. I need to install them either somewhere else or in a different way. I will try ~/.texmf/tex/latex/nassflow now and report back.

[Lustique]

Do you use the TeXLive offered by the Ubuntu guys?

[Spharx]

I copied the files into ~/.texmf/tex/latex/nassflow and defined TEXMF=~/.texmf/. Gummi still can't find the nassi.sty
The Variable evaporates after I close bash. How do I define it to be permanently ?

TeXLive is installed on my system but I don't really know if Gummi is using it. As "typsetter comand" is pdflatex selected.

[Minskleip]

You have to export it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bach_profile or ~/.profile or something

It could be that you have to update some cache as well! Try putting the .sty in the same directory as your .tex files.

Actually, I suggest you scrap that 'buntu and try something that works, like Debian or OpenBSD. Did I tell you that I wrote my thesis on OpenBSD with Texlive? Never had a problem.

[Lustique]

[...]Actually, I suggest you scrap that 'buntu and try something that works, like Debian or OpenBSD. Did I tell you that I wrote my thesis on OpenBSD with Texlive? Never had a problem.

Or just use the version from the TeX Live guys (TeX Live 2011). This way you do not have to work with a TeX system that's totally outdated.

[Spharx]

If I munch all files together everything works fine
Well at least now I can make this damn diagram. As it looks I will need a good book about latex because I cant do a thing here with intuition.
Why do you use TexLive ? Isn't Latex supposed to be easier than the old Tex ??
Witch editors do you use?

[webwit]

Not sure if ubuntu has SELinux, if it has and the permissions are right but security context is wrong, it still won't find it.
ls --lcontext
and
man chcon
Does gummi have access to the files with the security context you got?

It's one of the things I hate most about this class of linuxes. BSD for me!

You can check if it's the problem with:
setenforce 0
and try again
If you do that and have a chmod 777 on the file (and check the parent directory for permissions too) it should find it, or it's looking in the wrong place.

[Minskleip]

Why do you use TexLive ? Isn't Latex supposed to be easier than the old Tex ??
Witch editors do you use?

It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).

My editor is nvi

[Lustique]

[...]Why do you use TexLive ? Isn't Latex supposed to be easier than the old Tex ??
Witch editors do you use?

Yes, it probably is, but TeX Live is a (La)TeX distribution, so you do not have to use TeX (I never did, well, not directly, only LaTeX).
I switch between Texmaker and Emacs with AucTeX, both are great, but Texmaker is way easier. I can most definitely recommend it.

Oh, and for LaTeX problems I can really recommend http://tex.stackexchange.com/. You will probably get help really fast, sometimes even from the package authors themselves.

[Lustique]

It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).[...]

... and LuaTeX, which is very promising, I think.

[JBert]

I seem to remember that I had to run texhash when I copied something to ~/texmf/tex/latex/<package name from sty file>/

[Spharx]

@webwit: The command ls --lcontext does not exist on my system.
Ansyways I have deleted all the mess before you posted
I will try other editors and maybe even freeBSD.

Thx guys for the help. Case closed for now

E:
@JBert that could be really the problem. I did read about it just some minutes ago. But I am to lazy for this now. Maybe I will try tomorrow.

[Minskleip]

It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).[...]

... and LuaTeX, which is very promising, I think.

Tex implemented in Lua?

[woody]

@webwit: The command ls --lcontext does not exist on my system.

ls -l --context
or
ls -lZ

[webwit]

Or maybe even better, he doesn't have that crap!

[Spharx]

Redo it again:
- put in the package files as root in usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/nassflow/
- change the owner from root to my account
- chmod 777 on folder & files

install Texmaker -> viola it works
reinstall gummi -> also works

My conclusion: either texmaker, the owner change from root to a normal account or even a simple reboot did the job
This new OS will make me quiet some headaches in the next time

Also woodys commands work

Spoiler:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 1812 1997-02-05 01:00 aaread.me
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 689 1997-02-05 01:00 add.lse
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 68147 2004-04-15 21:17 flow_man.pdf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 8617 1997-02-05 01:00 flow_man.tex
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 8065 1997-02-05 01:00 flow.sty
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 16600 1997-02-05 01:00 manual.cls
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 11230 1997-02-05 01:00 manual.sty
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 9150 1997-02-05 01:00 nassi.sty
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 74168 2004-04-15 21:17 [nass_man.pdf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 12173 1997-02-05 01:00 nass_man.tex
-rw-rw-rw- 1 daniel daniel ? 7330 1997-02-05 01:00 struct.lse

[Lustique]

It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).[...]

... and LuaTeX, which is very promising, I think.

Tex implemented in Lua?

No, I think it's more like an advanced pdfTeX with a built-in Lua scripting engine. But I, more or less, only use it to be able to use OTF fonts.