itex

(Semi)Automatic package installing for *TeX

Requirements

• 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

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.

itex

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.

Installation

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

Author

Mart Lubbers

License

See LICENCE