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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label install-where</title>
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<h3>Where to install packages</h3>
<p/>Where precisely you put files that you have downloaded depends on
what TeX distribution you have. We will assume that you have one
of the modern TDS-compliant distributions, and discuss the
general rules that you should follow.
<p/>First, you must decide which tree to put your files into; this isn’t
entirely trivial, and is discussed in
“<a href="FAQ-what-TDS.html">choosing a TDS tree</a>”.
<p/>We’ll assume from here on, that you’ve decided on a directory tree,
and we will write <code>$TEXMF</code> for it, whatever it is for your
system.
<p/>The basic idea is to imitate the directory structure in your
existing tree(s). Here are some examples of where various sorts of
files should go:
<blockquote>
<pre>
.sty, .cls or .fd: $TEXMF/tex/latex/<package>/
.dvi, .ps or .pdf: $TEXMF/doc/latex/<package>/
.mf: $TEXMF/fonts/source/<supplier>/<font>/
.tfm: $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/<supplier>/<font>/
.vf: $TEXMF/fonts/vf/<supplier>/<font>/
.afm: $TEXMF/fonts/afm/<supplier>/<font>/
.pfb: $TEXMF/fonts/type1/<supplier>/<font>/
.ttf: $TEXMF/fonts/truetype/<supplier>/<font>/
.otf: $TEXMF/fonts/opentype/<supplier>/<font>/
.pool, .fmt, .base or .mem: $TEXMF/web2c
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
and for modern systems (those distributed in 2005 or later, using TDS
v1.1 layouts):
<blockquote>
<pre>
.map: $TEXMF/fonts/map/<syntax>/<bundle>/
.enc: $TEXMF/fonts/enc/<syntax>/<bundle>/
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
(Map and encoding files went to directories under
<i>$TEXMF/dvips/</i>, in earlier distributions.)
<p/>In the lists above, <<i>package</i>>, <<i>font</i>> and <<i>supplier</i>> depend
upon what’s appropriate for the individual file — the supplier
“public” is commonly used for free fonts. The <<i>syntax</i>>
(for <code>.map</code> and <code>.enc</code> files) is a categorisation based
on the way the files are written; typically, it’s the name of a
program such as <i>dvips</i> or <i>pdftex</i>.
<p/>“Straight” (La)TeX input can take other forms than the <code>.sty</code>,
<code>.cls</code> or <code>.fd</code> listed above, too. Examples are
<code>.sto</code> and <code>.clo</code> for package and class options,
<code>.cfg</code> for configuration information, and so on.
<p/>Note that <<i>font</i>> may stand for a single font or an entire family:
for example, files for all of Knuth’s Computer Modern fonts are to be
found in <code>.../public/cm</code>, with various prefixes as appropriate.
<p/>The font “supplier” <em>public</em> is a sort of hold-all for
“free fonts produced for use with (La)TeX”: as well as Knuth’s
fonts, <em>public</em>’s directory holds fonts designed by others
(originally, but no longer exclusively, in Metafont).
<p/>Some packages have configuration files (commonly with file suffix
<code>.cfg</code>), and occasionally other run-time files. The package
documentation <em>should</em> mention these things, but sometimes
doesn’t. An exception is the <code>.drv</code> file, used by some
packages as part of the documentation building process; this is
usually part of the package documentation process, and should not be
installed.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=install-where">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=install-where</a>
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