No Xelatex in texlive 2012

Question

just installed texlive 2012 on my ubuntu and I have no xelatex.

There is one in Mac distribution. Is Ubuntu's "special"? I'll be glad for help.

Answer 1

It depends on what metapackage you've installed TeXLive with. There's basic ones, regular ones and full ones. I believe that the installation of texlive-full does pull XeLaTeX it in.

If you need the command-line tool xelatex, you'll just need to install texlive-xetex.

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To teach fishing, rather than feed you fish:

• Go to packages.ubuntu.com

• Scroll down to Search the contents of packages

• select packages that contain files whose names end with the keyword

• fill in xelatex

• Hit search.

• Enjoy the results, e.g.

  /usr/bin/xelatex   texlive-xetex