Installing LaTeX class files not available in Debian packages

On Tue, 8 May 2012 12:27:13 -0500,

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

On 8 May 2012 at 11:48, Douglas Bates wrote:
| Thanks, Dirk. ?I should have thought to run locate.

Locate of course only works when you already have the file. What I do
when I don't have the file yet (but suspect it is packaged) is to go
here:

? http://packages.ubuntu.com/

? http://packages.debian.org

I have some luck with

wajig search <foo>

and also

wajig whichpkg <filename>

There's also apt-file, which I'm very fond of:

,-----[ apt-file search tufte-handout.cls ]
| texlive-lang-arabic: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bidi/biditufte-handout.cls
| texlive-pictures: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tufte-latex/tufte-handout.cls
| texlive-pictures: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tufte-latex/tufte-handout.cls
`-----

Cheers,

Seb