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I installed LaTeX on my Kubuntu with those commands:

sudo apt-get install abntex
sudo apt-get install texmaker
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended texmaker

but I also need to use listings package for my assignment paper. Please, help, how to install listings package for LaTeX here?

EDIT:

Ok it turned out that listings wasnt missing it was something different which caused the problem. I found solution which helped me:

mkdir -p /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/floatflt
cd /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/floatflt
rm -f floatflt.* float*.tex
wget http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/floatflt.ins
wget http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/floatflt.dtx
latex floatflt.ins
texhash /usr/share/texmf-texlive
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Might be best suitable on tex.stackexchange.com – mtk Jan 28 at 12:10
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Hey Katie: rather than editing the answer into your question, it's best to actually provide it as a new answer, which you can then mark as accepted. That keeps the questions and answers nicely separate and makes it easier for future visitors to recognize that there's a solution (rather than just a really long question with updates). – mattdm♦ Jan 28 at 13:57
If the listings package was not missing, then what was the problem? Any error message? – njsg Jan 28 at 17:05
@mtk: Even better: askubuntu.com – Martin Schröder Jan 29 at 9:25

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I recommend you to use apt-file to search for the package that contains a specific file.

If you invoke

apt-file search listings.sty

you should find the package that contains listings.

On my system it's contained in texlive-latex-recommended that you have already installed.

To play it safe i would execute

texhash

to update latex's directory tree.

If you can't get it working after that i'm pretty sure that something else is wrong.

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