Our organisation has a very restrictive computing environment. Users are not permitted to install their own software. Furthermore, we make heavy use of non-persistent virtual machines and virtualised applications (Win10, App-V), which of course makes software administration tricky.
The utility which "virtualises" programs for App-V supposedly has a hard limit of 15k files, and a complete MikTeX installation exceeds this by some margin. I am trying to figure out how we might offload packages to a shared repository on our intranet, from which users can load or install as required. The first step is not so hard: I understand that the MikTeX Setup Utility [provides](https://miktex.org/howto/local-repository) this functionality. The second is rather more difficult. Users cannot install to the system partition (_i.e._ the C: drive), and in any case even if they could this would be ephemeral as the non-persistent virtual machines are destroyed and re- created each shutdown/boot. Users _do_ have a separate home drive to which they can permanently install files. Let's call it the H: drive. I was hoping to achieve something similar to what we do with the R language: have a corporate repository of packages which can be loaded directly into the RAM of the R session, or have users install a package to their H: drive and add this location to the PATH of the R session. I suppose the "Specifying Alternative Input Directories" section of the manual gives one way of specifying a non-default personal library installation location? Or is it the custom TEXMF directory that I should create? Also, some packages (such as "glossaries") rely on (non-TeX) scripts. Can the installation location of these be customised as well? Thanks for your time. _______________________________________________ Q: How can I leave the mailing list? A: See https://miktex.org/faq/how-can-i-leave-the-mailing-list
