[tex-live] Where to copy .sty files

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 21:37:53 CET 2009


2009/11/20 Omer Khalid <Omer.Khalid at cern.ch>:
> Hi,
> I have texlive 2007 installed with MacTex.
> I need to use algorithmic and algorithms packages, so I got them from CTAN
> site and extracted the *.sty files.
> I tried to copy them to various places including ~/texmf/tex or
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex or in the directory where my thesis tex files are.
> Afterwards, I ran "texhash" command to refresh the database; but it seems
> that my tex system still can't located the files as I keep on getting the
> error about the missing algorithms.sty file.
> I also tried to find "tlmgr" command on my OS X Lepord machine no luck!
> Any help in how to install these .sty files would be very much appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Omer

This is strange. In order to display what paths are searched, run the
following command:
kpsewhich -show-path=tex -progname=latex


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