No Xelatex in texlive 2012
Solution 1:
It depends on what metapackage you've installed TeXLive with. There's basic ones, regular ones and full ones. I believe that the installation of texlive-full does pull XeLaTeX it in.
If you need the command-line tool xelatex, you'll just need to install texlive-xetex.
To teach fishing, rather than feed you fish:
Go to
packages.ubuntu.comScroll down to Search the contents of packages
select packages that contain files whose names end with the keyword
fill in
xelatexHit search.
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Enjoy the results, e.g.
/usr/bin/xelatex texlive-xetex