Installing latex packages easily

[fivethreeo]

export LATEXHOME=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME`/tex/latex
export LATEXPKG=auto-pst-pdf
mkdir -p $LATEXHOME/$LATEXPKG
cd $LATEXHOME/$LATEXPKG
export LATEXSUBPKG=calculate
curl https://www.ctan.org/pkg/$LATEXPKG-$LATEXSUBPKG | grep -i zip | sed -n 's/.*href="\([^"]*\).*/\1/p' | xargs -L 1 wget
unzip $LATEXSUBPKG
unzip $LATEXPKG-$LATEXSUBPKG

export LATEXHOME=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME`/tex/latex
export LATEXPKG=auto-pst-pdf
cd $LATEXHOME
curl https://www.ctan.org/pkg/$LATEXPKG | grep -i zip | sed -n 's/.*href="\([^"]*\).*/\1/p' | xargs -L 1 wget
unzip $LATEXPKG

[haraldschilly]

@fivethreeo looks like some useful scripts, although I'm not 100% sure what they do. With some explanations it might be best if we move this to the howto section of cocalc's documenation? I.e. add a page right here … what do you think?