[OS X TeX] Re: Installing a package on Mac-TeX
Gerben Wierda
Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Sun May 21 20:56:59 EDT 2006
On May 22, 2006, at 02:44, John Burt wrote:
> 1. Download the package and expand the tar or zip file.
> 2. Move the package to somewhere on your texinputs search path.
> Mac-TeX makes several texmf trees, some of which will be overwritten
> if you upgrade Mac-TeX, and others will be left alone. You want to put
> the file in one of the latter. The best place is in the texmf folder
> that is in Home/library. I put my packages in a directory which has a
> path like this Home/Library/texmf/tex/latex/mypackages.
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local for stuff you want to share with
other users (recommended).
> 3. From the terminal, issue the command texhash.
Normally not needed for ~/Library/texmf
G
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