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In a follow up to this question: Where is the TexLive 2010 default package directory located in Windows 7 64-bit?

If my TeX Live installation is in C:\texlive\2016 can I change the package directory to anything else other than C:\texlive\2016\texmf-dist\tex\latex?

E.g. can I (somehow) ask TeX Live installed on C: to look for packages on a D: drive?

Reason for question: my TeX Live is installed on a corporate machine where I don't have administrator rights to C: drive hence I cannot add new packages to my distribution.

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  • In your situation, how does C:\texlive\2016 get created in the first place? Are you asking about 'updating' your TeX system generally or adding packages manually?
    – Joseph Wright ♦
    Jan 9, 2017 at 11:12
  • it's about adding packages manually, system would be installed by the company admin to C:\texlive\2016. If I wanted to add a new package I would have to contact admin each and every time.
    – SuzukiBlue
    Jan 9, 2017 at 12:44
  • In that case, you may wish to look at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1137/…: you can install files 'just for you' in your personal tree
    – Joseph Wright ♦
    Jan 9, 2017 at 12:45
  • On Windows (and Linux, maybe Mac) TeXlive can be installed as portable, in a user directory. No admin rights needed, as long as you are the user (and if not, on USB). Keep that in mind.
    – user103221
    Mar 19, 2017 at 2:36
  • Related to askubuntu.com/questions/296681/latex-filepaths-in-ubuntu
    – user
    Aug 20, 2019 at 3:49

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TeXLive will ask you, where to install your system. You can of course select any different target directory, you have write permissions to. If you are installing a fresh system from scratch, everything will be fine.

You may also install a complete or incomplete set of packages of an TeX-Directory-Structure (TDS) on D: or any other file system. (I mean: in parallel to any existing TeXLive installation.) In that case, you have to edit your local settings, to include that TDS-tree into your TeX search path. (Obviously, you also need to have administration rights, to do that ...)

You have to edit $TEXMFDIST/web2c/texmf.cnf, where $TEXMFDIST is the root of your TeXLive installation. In that file, you have to include your second TDS-tree.

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