How to install Acrotex in Debian for TeXLive?

Question

I need LaTeX Eforms, which is part of the package Acrotex which zip-file here, for my TeXLive 2017. It is not part of Debian TeXLive because the package is not free enough for Debian, stated by Ulrike here. There is no installation instructions in the package. The online website has the phrase macros/latex/contrib/acrotex, so maybe, indicating where to install in the filesystem. Ulrike's comment about installing but I really would like to have a confirmation in my Vanilla system with equivs control here such that I do not mess up my TeXLive installation.

You can get the miktex package http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/acrotex.tar.lzma You only need to unpack it. There are a few files which are documentation, but the rest should simply go in your local texmf in tex/latex/acrotex.

My attempt

1. Find the location of the texmf-local in your system by find / -type d -name "texmf-local" 2>/dev/null
2. Download the zip-file and unzip it here

3. Move the files to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local, since you see it is safe in the following

   masi@masi:~$ ls /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/
   bibtex  doc  dvips  fonts  metapost  tex  tlpkg  web2c
   
   masi@masi:~/Downloads$ cd acrotex/texmf/
   doc/    source/ tex/    tpm/    
   

4. But having a trouble in doing the copying

   masi@masi:~/Downloads/acrotex/texmf$ mv * /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/
   mv: replace '/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc', overriding mode 2755 (rwxr-sr-x)? 
   

5. Studying the environment

   masi@masi:~$ ls /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc/
   local
   masi@masi:~$ ls /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc/local/
   

6. Getting Permission denied without sudo, so

   masi@masi:~/Downloads/acrotex/texmf$ sudo mv * 
   /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/
   mv: cannot move 'doc' to '/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc': Directory not empty
   mv: cannot move 'tex' to '/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex': Directory not empty
   

Output unsuccesful with the test code of the answer.

! LaTeX Error: File `eforms.sty' not found.

Expected output: output in the thread answer screenshot figure here.

Testing Ferenc's proposal

Code where sudo did not work on the second command

masi@masi:~/Downloads$ sudo tar -C "$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL)" --strip-components=1 -xf acrotex.tar.lzma

masi@masi:~/Downloads$ mktexlsr "$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL)"
mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local: directory not writable. Skipping...
mktexlsr: Done.

Output: ! LaTeX Error: Fileeforms.sty' not found.` on test tex file so failure.

Using sudo instead with the second command, you get

masi@masi:~/Downloads$ sudo mktexlsr "$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL)"
sudo: mktexlsr: command not found

Testing PATHs in my system

masi@masi:~$ which mktexlsr
/usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexlsr

masi@masi:~$ sudo which mktexlsr

masi@masi:~$ sudo -l which mktexlsr
/usr/bin/which mktexlsr

Correct command with correct path (Ferenc)

masi@masi:~$ sudo /usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexlsr "$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL)"
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Done.

Output: as expected with the test file!

OS: Debian 9
TeXLive: 2017 manual installation at TeXLive /usr/local/

Answer 1

"Your local texmf" is probably what kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL returns (usually /usr/local/share/texmf). So use something like

# tar -C "$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL)" --strip-components=1 -xf acrotex.tar.lzma
# mktexlsr "$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL)"

to unpack and index the package. If the quoted instructions are correct (I haven't checked that), this should make the package available to all users on the system. Alternatively, you can use TEXMFHOME instead of TEXMFLOCAL to install into your home directory. You may need to create the directory, and don't use mktexlsr in this case. This does not require root privileges and does not affect other users, so may be more appropriate for initial testing.