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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label inst-tds-zip</title>
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<h3>Installing using preformatted ZIP files</h3>
<p/>Installing packages, as they (“traditionally”) appear on
CTAN, involves:
<ul>
<li> identifying where to put the various files on an TDS
tree,
<li> installing them, and
<li> a few housekeeping operations.
</ul>
Most people, for most packages, find the first two steps onerous, the
last being easy (unless it is forgotten!).
<p/>Preformatted ZIP files (also known as
<a href="FAQ-tds-zip.html">TDS ZIP files</a>) are designed to lighten
the load of performing the first two steps of installation: they
contain all the files that are that’s to be installed for a given
package, in their “correct” locations in a
<a href="FAQ-tds.html">TDS tree</a>.
<p/>To install such a file on a Unix system (we assume that you’ll install
into the local TEXMF tree):
<blockquote>
<pre>
cd $TEXMFLOCAL
unzip $package.tds.zip
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
<p/>On a Windows system that is modern enough that it has a built-in
ZIP unpacker, simply double-click on the file, and browse to
where it’s to be unpacked. (We trust that those using earlier
versions of Windows will already have experience of using
<i>WinZIP</i> or the like.)
<p/>Having unpacked the <code>.zip</code> archive, in most cases the only
remaining chore is to update the file indexes — as in
<a href="FAQ-inst-wlcf.html">normal installation instructions</a>. However, if
the package provides a font, you also need to enable the font’s map,
which is discussed in
“<a href="FAQ-instt1font.html">Installing a Type 1 font</a>”
<p/>At the time of writing, there are rather few <code>.tds.zip</code>
files (by comparison with the huge number of packages that are
available). As packages are updated, the number of files is
steadily increasing, but it will be a long time before the whole set
is covered.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst-tds-zip">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst-tds-zip</a>
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