(Semi)Automatic package installing for *TeX

• expect (https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index)
• bash (https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/)
• texlive (https://tug.org/texlive/)

You can install this on a debian-like system with the following command:

# apt-get install expect bash 

For texlive, you need at least the infrastructure (tlmgr). No packages are required.

Usage: tlmgri [TLMGROPTS] FILENAME

This will search for a package containing exactly FILENAME. If there is only one it will be installed. If there are multiple a select is given. TLMGROPTS are applied on the tlmgr install command. Thus, you can do something like: tlmgri --dry-run booktabs.sty.

Usage:

itex [ITEXOPTS] TEXCOMMAND [TEXOPTS] 

e.g.:

itex -b -l pkgs.log pdflatex -no-shell-escape document.tex 

Prepend your *TeX command with itex. When the command starts to complain about missing packages it automatically launches tlmgri to install the package.

Just move or link both itex and tlmgri somewhere in your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)

Mart Lubbers

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