[tex-live] a quick question: unable to install new bibliography styles

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Guoqin Ren wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried to use the bibtex style: http://arxiv.org/hypertex/bibstyles/hep.bst
> I put hep.bst into texmf-local/bibtex/bst/local/ and run texhash as well as mktexlsr. But when I use \bibliographystyle{hep} in my paper, it doesn't work. When I replace hep with plain or alpha, it works, but that's not what I want.
> 
> Suggestions please. Thanks.
> 
> Ren

Howdy,

What is the full path you used? What system are you running on? Is your distribution owned by root? If so you need to run `sudo texhash` and give an admin password.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)