Re: Adding packages to Tetex
Thomas and Frank, many thanks for your replies.
Frank points to the right info although it is well hidden!
What is important is that when I Google "add package tetex" or "add
package debian tetex" I get to the right information. This is not the
case today.
Furthermore, I had read both
/usr/share/doc/tetex-base/README.Debian.gz and
/usr/share/doc/tetex-extra/README.Debian.gz (same file)
but it turns out the information I need is only contained in
/usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/README.Debian.gz ... :-)
We need the info but need to fight some entropy...
Please, both of you, add somewhere in your documentation a paragraph
entitled "How to add CTAN packages and files to your Tetex distribution"
and make a link to
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wherefiles
Danke viel mal,
-Thomas
Frank Küster writes:
> Gruezi,
>
> Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> schrieb:
>
> >> It would e helpful if you could add to the Tetex FAQ and to the
> >> documentation an explanation to add new packages, e.g. the harvard
> >> bibliographic style, to the Tetex tree or in some place where it
> >> doesn't get crushed when I update my Debian distribution.
> >
> > The TeX FAQ covers this topic:
> > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages
> >
> > Maybe, this answer has to be extended for the special situation where
> > parts of the system are under some under package control system.
>
> Hm, no. If you really install a file locally (i.e., do not create your
> own local Debian package) the advice in that link (or actually in
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wherefiles) still
> holds. It's the "or" part, though:
>
> /usr/local/share/texmf/
>
> Additionally, the same information (including a hint for HOMETEXMF) is
> in /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/README.Debian.gz
>
> Regards, Frank
> --
> Frank Küster
> Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer
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