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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-01-30 00:23:18 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-01-30 00:23:18 +0000
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@@ -21,8 +21,12 @@ you to do it. The most modern distributions refer to the tree as
so to check that your TeX system does indeed support the mechanism
you should start with
<pre>
-kpsewhich -expand-var "\$TEXMFHOME"
+kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
</pre>
+(for example). This will almost invariably return a pointer to a
+subdirectory <i>texmf</i> of your home directory; the commonest
+exception is Macintoshes, using MacTeX, where the diretory is
+conventionally <i>Library/texmf</i> in your home directory.
<p/>If you can confirm that the technique does indeed work, install your
new package (or whatever) in the <a href="FAQ-install-where.html">correct place</a>
in a tree based on <i>$HOME/texmf</i>, and generate an index of that