I'm trying to add the 'titlesec' package to my Debian 2.1 system and having a problem. After a little research, my understanding of the process is to add additional Tex packages into one of the home or local directories as defined in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and then run texhash.
So, on my system the 'local' directory for this is /usr/lib/texmf/local. I downloaded the titlesec package off of a CTAN mirror into /usr/lib/texmf/local/titlesec, untar'ed it and ran latex on titlesec.tex (according to the readme provided along with it). I then ran texhash as root and saw that the ls-R files were rebuilt. Particularly the file /usr/lib/texmf/local/ls-R now contains the titlesec directory and subordinate files in that directory. But in my latex source file, a \usepackage{titlesec} causes an error that the file titlesec.sty is not found. titlesec.sty is of course in /usr/lib/texmf/local/titlesec/titlesec.sty and it is also mentioned in the ls-R file there. So, I'm not sure what I've done wrong here -- any thoughts? Thanks... Steve Witt