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TexLive 2012 Ubuntu 13.04 - Correct way to set TEXMFHOME
I have found numerous guides on how to do this (heres a couple):
$TEXMFHOME setting
customizing TEXMFHOME
but I have a different directory structure and none of the places present in the answers ...
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How do I tell kpsewhich where to find texmf.cnf in my default installation? [closed]
I have just removed all trace of my old TeXLive installation due to a different problem.
I have just reinstalled TeXLive using their own installer on linux (install-tl).
I have kept the installation ...
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Explaining differences between the folder texmf and texmf-texlive in Ubuntu
I have only downloaded a bibtex utility to export the bib entries that cited in the TeX documents. It contains .dtx and .ins, but the instructions is not really clear enough to install it into my ...
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Make LaTeX recognize local files in Dropbox under Linux
I have some local LaTeX files in Dropbox and have not been able to make LaTeX recognize them. It does find my local texmf folder, but that doesn't help me.
I am working under Fedora 17 and uname -r ...
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Purpose of local texmf trees
In Tex Live there are several local texmf trees (TEXMFLOCAL for admin and TEXMFHOME for user, compare comments and answers to What are TeXLive's four different texmf folders?), in MiKTeX I manually ...
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latex gives me the error: Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered
As the title states, compiling with latex produces the error, right away:
Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered!---case 14
I have no idea what this means... I use TexLive 2012. I updated ...
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Memory settings with MacTeX 2012
Until now I had TeXLive 2011 installed and could successfully modify my memory settings using this solution with the TextWrangler approach to the question Memory settings with MacTeX - Which texmf.cnf ...
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Local font installation problems
Recently I tried to reinstall the MathTimePro II fonts in my local texmf directory. I already have Lucida fonts installed which works fine. So I carefully copied all the relevant files/folders to the ...
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TeX Live 2011: tlmgr not using xz after system upgrade [closed]
I have moved my TeX Live installation directories from one computer to another when I bought a newer system. I simply did a tar cfj texlive.tbz /texlive/ (the root directory where I had put TeX Live) ...
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How to install system wide packages without requiring an ls-R database (with texlive)?
Question
How can I install packages for system-wide use, but without requiring the ls-R database to be updated?
Background
The texlive documentation indicates that user specific packages should be ...
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How to make LaTeX see local texmf tree
I recently installed TeXLive 2011 on my Mac running Snow Leopard. I did not download MacTeX (for reasons we won't go into here). I'm running into a problem where pdflatex can't see my local texmf ...
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What are TeXLive's four different texmf folders?
Could someone please explain to me what the purpose of the four different texmf folders are in Mac? E.g. there is:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-config
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How to add an extra searchable dir with personal style files to TeXLive, NOT under ~/Library/texmf?
Migrated from Win-MiKTeX (WMTX) to MacOSX-Aquamacs with TeXLive (MXATL), I have my personal .sty/.cls files somewhere under my homedir. So I go with ShreevatsaR's comments from Aug. 5 on this site ...
