Latex: Extracting the sty files of all the used packages

Question

Hi.

So after writing a large .tex file and using many packages I want to archive everything, not just the .tex .jpg files, but also the .sty files.

This is because sometimes some options in the sty files are changed, and then I can't compile the file.

The "problem" is that in using Ubuntu, I already installed all the packages in my system. I don't want to have to copy them manually. Is there a program that can do this automatically?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Latex logfiles indicate all files loaded as follows:

1. Files specified using absolute paths are shown (\$PATH followed by whitespace (a space or a newline; I think Tex forbids whitespace in paths, certainly paths with whitespace are a pairn to pass to \input);
2. Local paths are the same except they have a dot: (.\$PATH followed by whitespace
3. Fonts are shown within <...>.

You can easily scrape these filenames out of the .log file.

Answer 2

See http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=filesused .