Re: using Tex / LaTeX as non-root

[Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>]

Ananda Kumar Samaddar <ananda_samaddar@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> can somebody help with me with said subject?  Since I
> upgraded to Woody, my texmf tree in /var/spool has not
> been changeable by a normal user.  So as a normal user
> I cannot generate new tfm or pk files.  This is very
> annoying as I use both LyX and TeXmacs.
>
> How do I rectify this so that any user can generate
> these files?
>

Have a look in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf 

You can have a user texmf tree in $HOME/texmf, but here are detailed
instructions about paths etc


Good luck






Glyn
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