Difficults installing / using different packages / libraries

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Hello,

I have problems with using some libraries, some of them are related to Latex, others are dependencies for some other stuff.
The connecting element of the problems is, that if I try to install them via pacman or something else, they cannot be installed, since they already are installed, but I cannot use them.

E.g.:
1 Latex package svg:

sudo tlmgr install svg                                                                                                                                                                          
tlmgr: package repository /usr/share (not verified: unknown)
tlmgr install: package already present: svg

Latex Code:

\usepackage{svg}
\begin{document}
	\includegraphics[height=1cm]{[i]File-Path to svg-grafic without endingin[/i]}
\end{document}

Error after compiling:

Filename.tex: Error: 5: File `svg.sty' not found. \usepackage

2 Library libexempi:

nemo
nemo: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libexempi.so.8: file too short

sudo pacman -S libexempi 
error: target not found: libexempi

3 Library libsycl:

blender
blender: error while loading shared libraries: libsycl.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sudo pacman -S libsycl
error: target not found: libsycl
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Just like pip and npm you probably should not be using sudo to install these things.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TeX_Live#tlmgr

This just means the package does not exist and/or you got the name wrong.

There is package exempi though.

Again with the possible wrong name.

There are a few intel-oneapi* packages that provide libsyscl.so files.

No examples of this. Simply incorrect targets.

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pacman -F /usr/lib/libexempi.so
usr/lib/libexempi.so is owned by extra/exempi 2.6.5-1

you would install exempi - not libexempi

How did you install latex?
If not via pacman.

blender in Arch is currently out of date
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/blender/
so it is likely the same in Manjaro stable - but that is speculation, not knowledge

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tlmgr install svg
You don't have permission to change the installation in any way, specifically, the directory /usr/share/tlpkg/ is not writable. Please run this program as administrator, or contact your local admin.
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
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sudo pacman -S exempi
warning: exempi-2.6.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/llvm-18.1.8-4/desc: No such file or directory
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) exempi-2.6.5-1

Total Installed Size:  1,44 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                [##################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                              [##################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                   [##################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                             [##################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
exempi: /usr/bin/exempi exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/include/exempi-2.0/exempi/xmp++.hpp exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/include/exempi-2.0/exempi/xmp.h exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/include/exempi-2.0/exempi/xmpconsts.h exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/include/exempi-2.0/exempi/xmperrors.h exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/lib/libexempi.so exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/lib/libexempi.so.8 exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/lib/libexempi.so.8.1.5 exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/exempi-2.0.pc exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/share/licenses/exempi/LICENSE exists in filesystem
exempi: /usr/share/man/man1/exempi.1.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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If you read the Arch wiki link that cscs provided, you should see that tlmgr should be used in usermode so that it will install packages locally in your own ~/texmf directory.

But it should not be necessary in this case. The TeX Live svg package is provided as part of texlive-latexextra.

But I think these errors suggest that you may have a more fundamental, underlying problem.

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This usually happens when you place files in system paths while working outside of the package manager.
Like sudo $sometool install or similar ā€¦

We can overcome this particular conflict using

sudo pacman -Syu exempi --overwrite '/usr/*'

But there is no telling, as yet, what other examples of the same problems may already be present.

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Without any prior knowledge of tex - Iā€™d assume you need to provide it with a switch e.g. --user to install in user mode.

That is true for npm (default to local, --global can be used) and was true for python (now python requires venv for installing outside the system foldertree).

Manjaro (inherited Arch) provides a lot of extensions as regular packages so if you are in need of a given tex package - one should search for the package in the repo using a reasonable keyword.

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