How can I solve the error: File `styles/thesis.sty' not found. ^^M

can anyone please help.I have tex-studio and tex live, i have tried a couple of stuff i saw for similar problems to no avail. I am running on Ubuntu 20.04.

below is what I am getting:

 LaTeX Error: File `styles/thesis.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<read *> 
         
l.9 ^^M
       
*** (cannot read from terminal in nonstop modes)

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 226 strings out of 481239
 2576 string characters out of 5920377
 236562 words of memory out of 5000000
 15583 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 532638 words of font info for 25 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 23i,0n,21p,271b,36s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!