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Asked: 2018-01-28 10:50:43 +0800 CST

Fonts installed but 'multicols.sty' not found

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I have both texlive-fonts-extra and texlive-fonts-recommended installed however I get 'multicols.sty' not found when compiling a tex file.

How do I fix this?

Update: the package is multicol without an s.

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1 Answers

  1. As far I can understand, the file multicol.sty is contained in texlive-latex-base package.

    Try to install it with sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base.

    For ngerman you should install texlive-lang-german with sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-german.

    As steeldriver recommended, below is working TeX example:

    \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{casual}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1.25in, left=1.25in, right=1.25in]{geometry}
\firstname{}
\lastname{}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\begin{document}
    \section{headline}
    \hspace*{\hintscolumnwidth}%
    \begin{minipage}{\maincolumnwidth}
    \setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{0pt}
        \begin{multicols}{2}
        \cventry{}{C\#}{basic}{}{}{} \par \cventry{}{UNIX}{basic}{}{}{} \par
        \cventry{}{vim}{basic}{}{}{} \par \cventry{}{\LaTeX}{basic}{}{}{} \par
        \cventry{}{HTML, CSS, PHP}{very basic}{}{}{} \par
    \end{multicols}
    \end{minipage}
\end{document}

    It compiles normally from Gummi (sudo apt-get install gummi).

    All needed TeX dependencies may be installed with 

    sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra lmodern texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base
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