[texhax] a0 poster

Frauke Jurgensen fraukevj at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 03:39:11 CEST 2006


On my machine, the regular TeX tree is at /usr/share/texmf,
and the local tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf, just as you describe. If I
recall correctly, I had to build this second tree myself when I started
installing my packages.

On 10/8/06, Deepankar Basu <basu.15 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I want to make a a0 size poster with latex. To do so I downloaded the
> following packages from CTAN:
>
> a0poster
> textpos
> everyshi
>
> Now I need to save them at an appropriate place (i.e., at a place where
> Tex scans for input files). I looked at the Tex FAQ and read that files
> with .sty, .cls or .fd extensions need to be saved in:
>
> $TEXMF/tex/latex/<package>
>
> where $TEXMF is the local root of the texmf tree.  To find the local
> root on my machine I did:
>
> kpsewhich -expand-var "\$TEXMFLOCAL"
>
> and got
>
> /usr/local/share/texmf
>
> But when I try to copy the files a0poster.cl or a0size.sty into
>
> /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/
>
> I see that the directory does  not exist! Infact, when I try to see if
> the following directory exists:
>
> /usr/local/share/texmf
>
> I get a message: "no such file or directory".
>
> Can anybody see the mistake I am making? Any adivice will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dipankar
>
>
>
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