Re: latex packages

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andre Berger wrote:

> * Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>, 2001-04-18 11:19 +0200:
> > I have a program that comes with addiditional packages for latex2e. I want
> > to use them system wide (and not copy them to the current dir), so I made
> > a directory in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/maple and copied the files to
> > that directory. Unfortunately, latex does not see them. I also tried to
> > rename the directory to the package name (maple2e) and a few other things,
> > without succes.
> > 
> > Does latex contain a database somewhere, or what am I doing wrong?
> 
> You'd better set up a tree in /usr/local/share/, it's cleaner and
> prevents possible problems on upgrades. Then, edit /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> to reflect your new settings. Last, run "texhash" as root, which will
> update the database tetex maintains. (You could also run "fmtutil --all"
> just in case). BTW there's also "texconfig", a graphical frontend to
> tetex's settings.
> 
> The beginning of my /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for reference.
> 
> % texmf.cnf -- runtime path configuration file for kpathsea.
> TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
> TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf
> HOMETEXMF = $HOME/Texmf
> TEXMF = {!!HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> SYSTEXMF = $TEXMF
> VARTEXFONTS  = /var/spool/texmf
> TEXMFDBS = $TEXMF;$VARTEXFONTS
> 
> [Rest of the setup file uncachged]
> 
> Andre Berger                                [andre.berger@topmail.de]
> 
Thank you very much! This could not solve my problem, but it gave me a
place to start. There is a database in /var/lib/texmf/ls-R which is
updated daily. I did now:
ln -s /usr/local/maple/etc /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/maple
/etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin

and the new packages have been recorden in the database.

Thanks!
Sebastiaan