> I've tried for a while now to install musictex, but haven't succeeded.
> My problem is that I don't know where to put the files.
> I've found the following at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html but I
> don't know what to put instead of <supplier>/<font>/.
>
> .sty, .cls or .fd: $TEXMF/tex/latex/<package>/
> .dvi, .ps or .pdf: $TEXMF/doc/latex/<package>/
> .tfm:  $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/<supplier>/<font>/
> .vf:   $TEXMF/fonts/vf/<supplier>/<font>/
> .afm:  $TEXMF/fonts/afm/<supplier>/<font>/
> .pfb:  $TEXMF/fonts/type1/<supplier>/<font>/
> .ttf:  $TEXMF/fonts/truetype/<supplier>/<font>/

First of all: "musictex" is an old version of "musixtex". If you don't
have special reasons for doing else you should install the latter.

To your question: In principle you are free to put these packages anywhere
you want, if it is inside TeX's file tree (or trees). But making
subdirectories helps to keep order with the endless number of files coming
with TeX and it's macro packages.

All TeX distributions I know have a twofold file tree. One is for the
standard files and packages and one is for local stuff. It is up to you in
which tree you want to put them. In my distribution (coming with SuSE
Linux) musixtex is integrated in the standard tree
(TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf, $TEXMF/tex/generic/musixtex,
$TEXMF/fonts/tfm/public/musixtex, $TEXMF/fonts/sources/public/musixtex
etc, local tree would be /usr/local/share/texmf).
 Installing musixtex in the standard tree of distributions coming without
musixtex has the disadvantage that you may loose the added stuff when you
uprgade to a newer version of the distribution.

After installing the packages you shouldn't forget to run the
configuration utility (e.g. texconfig under Linux's standard TeX
distribution teTeX) in order to make the new files visible to TeX's file
searching tool.

good luck, regards
  Bernhard

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