moderncv won’t work on Ubuntu 10.04 because of marvosym.sty

Posted on January 11, 2011 | 24 Comments

I’m updating my resume/cv for content and style. To help with the latter, I’m following some examples that use the moderncv LaTeX package.

I had trouble getting it to work. I like the look of this example, but I couldn’t get the provided TeX to compile. Instead, the error I got was:

LaTeX Error: File `marvosym.sty' not found.

Googling didn’t help me find an answer, so I searched the apt repository manually to see if this file was provided by a missing package:

root@gauze:~# apt-cache search marvosym
texlive-fonts-recommended - TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ttf-marvosym - Symbol font for school and office

Installing

root@gauze:~# apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended

fixed the problem. So now, Google, index this page and be more useful to the future.

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24 Responses to moderncv won’t work on Ubuntu 10.04 because of marvosym.sty

  1. gregorej | February 15, 2011 at 4:32 pm | Reply

    It worked for me. Thanks a lot for this post!

  2. Penido | March 29, 2011 at 8:29 pm | Reply

    Google already found this !
    Thank you ! =P

  3. JotaEle | August 31, 2011 at 8:34 pm | Reply

    It also worked here. Thank you very much. (Linux Mint 9 Isadora)

  4. Zahra | September 22, 2011 at 9:43 am | Reply

    extremely helpful!
    I am running it on UBUNTU 11.04 and it is working. :)
    Thank you very much.

  5. Dehava | September 23, 2011 at 2:32 pm | Reply

    Very helpful indeed, thanks!

  6. Frank | October 18, 2011 at 12:44 pm | Reply

    Thanks, man!

  7. arturo | October 21, 2011 at 5:49 pm | Reply

    era justo lo que necesitaba

  8. Lars Vogel | November 6, 2011 at 6:11 pm | Reply

    Thanks a lot. This saved my day!

  9. Matths87 | November 11, 2011 at 3:07 am | Reply

    Thanks you, pal :)

  10. jon | December 21, 2011 at 5:46 am | Reply

    Working solution on Ubuntu 11.10 and Texmaker. Thanks!

  12. Johannes | March 19, 2012 at 7:02 am | Reply

    thx a lot!

  13. T-Moe | April 1, 2012 at 4:49 pm | Reply

    Thx !!!

  14. Sieben | May 15, 2012 at 10:45 am | Reply

    Very helpful =)

  15. Sieben | May 15, 2012 at 10:45 am | Reply

    Thanks a lot it’s very efficient =)

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  17. DC | June 29, 2012 at 9:35 am | Reply

    Spot on, thanks pal!

  18. nada | July 26, 2012 at 11:29 pm | Reply

    Thank you very much!

  19. Peter Staudt (@pestfisch) | July 31, 2012 at 6:08 pm | Reply

    This helped also for using emacs-org-mode on ubuntu 12.04 for pdf export. Thanks a lot!

  20. Mihai | September 12, 2012 at 1:54 am | Reply

    Thanks a lot. Working properly on Linux Mint 13 Maya

  21. Marvin | October 20, 2012 at 10:05 am | Reply

    Thanks a lot! It worked for me.

  22. Michael | October 30, 2012 at 8:51 am | Reply

    For those who want the full-package: sudo apt-get install texlive-full
    The fonts-package is also included.

    Thanks for your post. Helped me a lot! :)

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