Thank you for your quick replies! @ Norbert Preinig
$ dpkg -l texlive-latex-recommended ii texlive-latex- 2007-9 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages $ dpkg -L texlive-latex-recommended | grep '\.sty$' | wc -l 1 $ @ Soren Hansen The folder /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/oberdiek does not exist on my system. Hence there are no .sty files in it. The reason I think that this package did not install any .sty files is that I get an error message whenever I try to use any of the packages that ship with the texlive-latex-recommended package. test.tex: --- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{anysize} \begin{document} xxx \end{document} --- $ latex test.tex ... ! LaTeX Error: File `anysize.sty' not found. ... $ -- texlive-latex-recommended 2007-9 does not install .sty-files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119470 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs