[Tugindia] TeX Live installation

S.V.Sreejan sreejansv at bsnl.in
Tue Aug 26 16:29:56 CEST 2008


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S.V.Sreejan

---- Nina Mazumdar <nina.mazumdar at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM, S.V.Sreejan <sreejansv at bsnl.in> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have installed TeX Live 2007 and it works OK. But I don't know where to put my personal styfiles so that the new TeX installation can find it. Kindly help.
> 
> Your package should go to a folder under:
> 
>   $TEXINPUTS.latex
> 
> In my system, the above variable expands to: $TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}
> and $TEXMF expands to: $TEXMFMAIN, $TEXMFHOME, $TEXMFDIST, $TEXMFLOCAL, etc.
> 
> It might be better to create a directory under $TEXMFLOCAL/tex/latex.
> $TEXMFLOCAL in my system is: /usr/local/share/texmf.
> 
> So, we will create a folder like:
> 
>  sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/sreejan
> 
> and copy your packages to the above folder. Update file database with
> the command 'texhash'  from the prompt.  You are done.
> 
> You may kindly look at TeX's main configuration file, 'texmf.cnf' to
> see where various environment variables cited above point to in your
> system.
> 
> The following command can tell you where the configuration file sits
> in your system:
> 
>   kpsewhich texmf.cnf
> 
> Have I answered your question?  If you have more doubts, please don't
> hesitate to get back to me.
> 
> Happy TeXing and best regards
> 
> -- 
> Nina

Thank you for the help. I've done as per your advice. But the result was the same. Later it was found that the  problem was with my "texhash". Running "sudo texhash" made it OK.

Regards

-Sreejan
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