On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:31:22AM -0500, Dan Sommers wrote: > Hi, > > First, thank you Dave Morrison for maintaining teTeX on fink. > > Now my question: what is the preferred place to put packages I download > from CTAN myself? > > On my Jaguar box, I found these: > > /sw/etc/texmf.local > /sw/share/texmf > /sw/share/texmf-local (a link to /sw/etc/texmf.local) > /sw/var/lib/texmf > > I could create my own private area under $HOME (since I'm the only one > using this box), or even under /Users/Shared, too.
Fink's tetex installation is configured to look for packages in two places besides the original installation tree: /sw/share/texmf-local for system-wide installation and $HOME/Library/texmf for single-user-only installation. (See the settings for TEXMFLOCAL and HOMETEXMF in /sw/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf for the actual configuration options.) TeTex expects a particular directory structure under these two locations; this parallels the structure that you can find in /sw/share/texmf. Bits of it are documented in the UK tex FAQ, available at <http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes>; some of the rest can be found in the TeTex documentation installed on your system. Wherever you put it, remember to run "texconfig rehash" after the installation; you may need to do that as root. Richard ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
