On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 08:00:25PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I have been using TeX for a while and I have never had to set up > anthing like this :( I had used MikTeX in winblow$ and TeTeX in linux > distros and FreeBSD 5.3/FreeBSD6.2, and I had never had to mess with > TDS. > > This is what I always did, I tried to compile a tex project and it > failed, I looked at which *.sty file was needed and I downloaded it > from CTTAN or off another computer that had it and put it directly on > the folder that I was working on. This had always worked for me.
It works. But if you want to use that style file in more than one directory, it gets tedious. > On TeXlive installations(with full TeXLive 20XY installations), I have > not had to hunt down *.sty files, except of course that big tikz > hungry trigbook package: > > http://media.texample.net/pgf/builds/pgfCVS2010-09-28_TDS.zip > > I downloaded it, and did not know what to do with it :( Not even with > the full TeXLive 2010 package installed I could get that trigbook > going :( [compiled except the tikz stuff ] If you are using TeXLive, first check if a TeXLive package for what you want exists. First tell tlmgr(1) to use a CTAN mirror: tlmgr option repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet Then list all packages available: tlmgr list|less The packages you have installed are prefixed with an 'i'. > Am taking a look at TDS, but still confused :( Make a texmf directory in your $HOME. This is searched by default in TeXLive. See /usr/local/texlive/<YEAR>/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Just unzip pgfCVS2010-09-28_TDS.zip in ~/texmf, and run mktexlsr afterwards. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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