[OS X TeX] Installation of BibLaTeX on OSX/TeXLive2008 (MacTeX)

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote:

>
> I am not so sure any more: Should I use MyUser/Library/texmf and  
> create the directories mentioned above (currently there is just / 
> bibtex, /doc, /fonts, /tex in there) or into root/Libary/TeX etc.?
>
> I'd like to put it somewhere where all users might find and use it  
> and I donot want to mess up my clean and nicely working system. Note  
> that I have not messed with any config-files and prefer never to  
> have to.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> Rolf


Howdy,

If you want all users to be able to use biblatex install it in the  
suggested sub-directories of the /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ tree.  
After installing there make sure to run

sudo mktexlsr

so that TeX can find the files.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)