On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Les Denham wrote:
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
From: Les Denham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Keith Roberts wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages
Keith Roberts wrote:
How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX packages from CTAN?
Do I have to install them into LyX, or into my actuall LaTeX
installation?
What operating system, and what LaTeX distribution?
/Paul
Hi Paul. I'm on Fedora 8, and it uses tetex-latex 3.0-44.9.fc8
Keith
Keith,
I'd suggest you upgrade to TexLive -- tetex is no longer maintained. You may
well find the packages you want are already included. See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive
However, the basic installation for most CTAN packages is pretty simple:
1. Download the package -- usually the "You can get this entire directory
bundled as ????.zip" near the top of the page listing the contents.
2. Unzip the downloaded file.
3. Follow the installation instructions in the README file.
4. Run texhash
5. From within LyX, do: Tools->Reconfigure. Restart LyX.
See section 5.1 in the LyX Help file Customization.
The installation instructions typically are something like this (from the
calendar package):
INSTALLATION
------------
The simplest way to install the tools in the package is to make a
subdirectory in the search path of your TeX, FTP all of the source files to
that directory, and run "latex allcal.ins". You should then be able to run
the demonstration files.
--
Les
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Thankyou for your very helpfull reply Les. I'm gonna
uninstall tetex-latex and start afresh with:
yum install texlive texlive-latex
I'll post again to the list and let you all know how it goes.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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