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the TeXLive 2012 distribution on my Mac is shipped with TikZ version 2.10 - I want to use (try) the CVS (most updated beta(?) version). Here's what I've done so far:

  1. Downloaded the the TDS package
  2. Extracted the package into /Users/username/Library/texmf/tex/generic/
  3. Added /Users/drorata/Library/texmf to my TEXMFLOCAL variable
  4. Ran texhash.

These steps indeed installed the newer version in my HOME directory, but not nicely. For example, running texdoc tikz, opens the manual of the older version. My question is how can I update TikZ properly?

In addition, how can I revert to the old version? Currently I can revert by moving the CVS version from the location specified above and run sudo texhash.

I guess this question is relevant for all TeX packages, so if this is the case, a general solution will be the best.

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If your TeXLive 2012 distribution for Mac OS X is MacTeX 2012, you should get a usable CVS version of TikZ/PGF with only two steps:

  1. Downloaded the TDS package.

  2. Extract the package into the root directory of a TDS tree used by your distribution. For example with MacTeX: /Users/<username>/Library/texmf/.

/Users/<username>/Library/texmf/ is the user's TDS tree and, by default, there is no need to call mktexlsr (texhash is an old name).

To remove this CVS version, delete the following directories (where . is your TDS directory):

  • ./source/latex/pgf
  • ./doc/generic/pgf
  • ./doc/pgf
  • ./scripts/pgf
  • ./tex/generic/pgf
  • ./tex/generic/pgf/graphdrawing/lua/pgf
  • ./tex/latex/pgf
  • ./tex/context/third/pgf
  • ./tex/plain/pgf

Note: To get the latest complete version of TikZ, see my answer to How to install a current version of TikZ?

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  • Without calling mktexlsr it didn't work. Once invoking it seems like everything works. Now, how can I revert back to the old version? Can you please add this to the answer?
    – Dror
    Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 19:57
  • @Dror If you delete the old ls-R file in /Users/<username>/Library/texmf/ and remove your old installation in /Users/username/Library/texmf/tex/generic/, the call to mktexlsr is not needed...
    – Paul Gaborit
    Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 22:18
  • If you're on TexLive 2013 and this didn't work, try to unpack inside the texmf-var directory instead. I also deleted the pgf_CVS directory and copied the doc, source, tex, and texdoc directories directly inside. (Creating a texmf directory alongside texmf-var didn't work for me for some reason).
    – PatrickT
    Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 12:45

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