Re: installing new latex document type - bst file not found by documents
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:53:04PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes:
>
> > I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8).
> > I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texhash.
>
> (/usr/local/share/texmf is probably a better pick; in this case, it's
> easier to distinguish "locally installed" from "dpkg maintained", but
> there's also a little more of a guarantee that various Debian packages
> won't step on it.)
>
> > The document type is recognized properly (the sty file is found by
> > latex), but when trying to use the bibliography style, (latex8.bst)
> > without a full path it is not found.
>
> You need to use one of the directories reported by 'kpsepath bst', or
> customize your texmf configuration. /usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bst
> is probably the best directory on the list.
>
Thanx, moved the whole package to /usr/local/share/texmf/latex8/...,
linked the bst file from /usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bst and ran
texhash. Now the bst file is found but the sty file isn't found by
latex.
What am I doing wrong this time?
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> David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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