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I'm currently writing a document on my "work-pc" meaning, that I do not have sudo rights on this machine.

It has some old version of hyperref installed, that is not compatible with pdfx and gives me the error: hyperref.sty: Package xkeyval error: 'pdfa' undefined in families Hyp.

I have downloaded a newer version of hyperref.sty from ctan and put it in a local directory. Then I have added said directory to the $TEXINPUTS variable, hoping that it would now use the newer hyperref version.

However it still uses the old one in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty which I don't have permissions to alter. How do I get it to use my new local version?

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  • Thanks. I'll try that as well. :) I also remembered in the mean time that one can put the package in ~/texmf/tex as this is queried first, so this can be considered solved.... Wish I had remembered this 10seconds before I posted, not after :p
    – myrtille
    Apr 23, 2015 at 14:50
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    Setting TEXINPUTS is the answer. presumably you did not add it correctly, but hard to say as you didn't show the value.
    – David Carlisle
    Apr 23, 2015 at 14:51
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    In addition to what David says, have you got the correct layout for your local directory (<place>/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty)
    – Joseph Wright ♦
    Apr 23, 2015 at 14:54
  • @JosephWright Yes. Once I've moved it to ~/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty it worked. I only remembered to try this after posting here, unfortunately.
    – myrtille
    Apr 23, 2015 at 14:57
  • @DavidCarlisle An answer?
    – Joseph Wright ♦
    Jun 6, 2015 at 21:13

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If you set

TEXINPUTS=/your/local/directory:

Then Tex will look there first and then (because of the trailing : ) look in all the standard places.

You can set TEXINPUTS as an environment variable or as a value in a texmf.cnf file.

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