! LaTeX Error: File `algorithm2e.sty' not found.

During yet another LaTeX project on my MacBook, I added some algorithms to my paper. After checking a couple of examples online, and discussing with a colleage I decided to go with algorithm2e over others such as algorithm, algorithmic, algorithmicx, program and pseudocode[1].

However I got the following error "! LaTeX Error: File `algorithm2e.sty' not found." Since I am using macport, to resolve this I needed to install the texlive-science package by executing sudo port install texlive-science, and all was good again.

References:

1. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Algorithms_and_Pseudocode

IEEETrans on Mac OS X with texlive

While compiling a journal paper, I got the following error message "I couldn't open style file IEEEtran.bst"

The IEEETrans TeX distribution can be manullay installed by using the packages from CTAN [1] or  IEEE [2]. However since I use macports, I just had to;

1. sudo port install texlive-publishers

References:

1. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/
2. http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/transactions