Ability to update texlive packages on ubuntu
latex, package-managers
Solution
from the command line: `sudo tlmgr update --all`
tlmgr is included in texlive 2008. it pretty nice. Pre-texlive 2008 (i.e., the one from the package manager) i can't help you.
Problem
I am using texlive on ubuntu and having issues with some packages used as they are too old. Downloading them from CTAN manually and installing fixes them but this is time consuming. On windows we use Miktex and just update to all the latest packages. Is there a way to update the packages in texlive to the latest from CTAN without going through the laborious process?