Installation sites? (Was Re: [OS X TeX] R, paradigm to bring into the LaTeX world?)

[Claus Gerhardt]

Josh,

They do take precedent with the actual tex file's directory to be  
overriding any other directory.

Claus


On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:51, Joshua Smith wrote:

> Claus,
>
> What happens when there is a package installed by i-Installer and  
> you put a newer version in one of these recommended installation  
> sites?  Which is used?  Do packages in these directories take  
> precedent?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> Let me clarify my install recommendations:
>>
>> Any .sty file should be installed in
>>  ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc
>>
>> the .cls files in
>> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/amscls
>>
>> the .bib, .bst files in
>> ~/Library/texmf/bibtex
>>
>> the .ist files in
>> ~/Library/texmf/makeindex
>>
>> Anyway, as a last resort, one should remember that tex always  
>> finds files that are in the same directory as the actual tex file.
>>
>> Claus
>>
>>
>> On Oct 22, 2006, at 15:43, Denis Chabot wrote:
>>
>>> Thus I like that in LaTeX things work as expected. On the  
>>> negative side, ...   . Especially if this requires getting a new  
>>> package installed.
>>
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