I have tried to install some packages (namely, the CTAN macros/latex/contrib/misc/ directory), following the procedures in the docs. Here's what I have done:
1. ensured that texmf.cnf has TEXMFLOCAL set to the right place (in my case /sw/share/texmf-local)
2. ensured that TEXMF includes the TEXMFLOCAL variable
(these happened already to be how my texmf.cnf was set up, for what it's worth)
3. installed the unzipped /misc directory in /texmf-local/tex/latex/
4. texhash-ed
5. Edit-Reconfigure-ed
6. Quit & restarted
And still I do not see the newly "installed" packages in Layout..Document...Class
I should point out that I'm using Lyx/Mac, and that the "directory" sw/share/texmf-local is in fact an alias to sw/etc/texmf.local/. I can't see how that would matter, though -- the ls-R file lists all the stuff that's "in" texmf-local, after I've used texhash.
Thanks in advance for any help with this,
-Richard --------------------------------------------- Richard Sherman Assistant Professor, Political Science Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/sherman
