[OS X TeX] Installing new packages

[Adam M. Goldstein]

Quick-start advice, which others will probably supplement:

(1) If you installed the entire MacTeX distribution, the package you  
want may be there already. Just try it and see if it works.

(2) You can put your own additions (.cls, .sty) in ~/Library/texmf/ 
tex/latex, or in the other subdirectories in ~/Library/texmf/ as  
appropriate for bibtex, for instance. This will not be overwritten by  
future installs and will be checked for class files.

-Adam

On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Phil Trinh wrote:

> Quick question: I'm new to unix so be sure to keep that in mind. I've
> installed MacTeX and I'm happily writing away. However, I'd like to
> ask how one installs new LaTeX packages? When I was on Windows, I had
> a nice MikTeX program to do everything. Now I'm not so sure.
>
> Thanks!
>
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