LaTeX (tetex) files?

[Timothy Murphy]

Daniel Stonier wrote:

> I'm not sure if it helps, but I have a bunch of style files I use that are
> non-tetex standard. The easiest way I've found to manage them while
> updating or re-installing the OS is to keep them in directories on my work
> partition somewhere and then set up symlinks to them in
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex.

This isn't really necessary.
If you put the files in ~/texmf/tex/latex
(and run texhash as you say)
they should be found.

The actual directories where tex/latex looks for files
is specified in texmf.cnf in the official tree.
"kpsewhich texmf.cnf" should tell you where this is.

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