latex sty update

jocsch · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 36

I use the tetex latex package. But all the included sty packages seems to be quite old (1999 and older)

Is there an easy way to update all the sty packages or have I to download all new packages from cantes and install them manually?

Thx,
Markus

fifo · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 437

There is a version 2.0 of tetex available in the portage tree in the 'unstable' branch--you could try that:

drini · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:51 am Post subject: actualizacion manual

una manera sencillisima
para no instalar TODO tetex
es bajar el paquete sty que queires actualizar
vas a
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
haces un directorio (digamos bbm) si es u paquete nuevo, o entras al que quieres actualziar
adentro pones l sty (en ejemplo: bbm.sty)
lanzas texconfig y le das rehash para actualziar la base de datos de tex
(o lo haces manualmente con los comandos arcanos)
y ya... todo funciona
( o simplemente pon elo .sty en el directorio del archivo .tex con el que estas trabajando, jejejejje)
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jocsch · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 36

spanish isn't a language that I can read

I have updated all packages on my own. Then read the post with the new tetex version and tried it.

drini · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 3:44 am Post subject: what's going on with me?

oh my god, ehhe
I got mixed up
was brosing several forums at the same time
hehehe, here's the simple way to update manually some latex package without upgrading whole tetex:

get from ctan the newer files (ctan.tug.org )
then go /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
make a dir for a new package if necessary
or just put the newer files under the appropiate subdirectory

Example:
say I want to add bbm package, then I get
bbm.dtx and bbm.ins from ctan
I run latex over bbm.ins in order to get the sty file
$latex bbm.ins
...
output is bbm.sty
and run latex on bbm.dtx in order to get the package documentation (bbm.dvi)

then move them to the appropiate directories
sty would go to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/bmm
and dvi would go to
/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/bbm

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after upgradin the files, launch texconfig
and rehash the file database
and you're done, you have now the updated packages
ready to use

alternative:
just drop the .sty file on the directory where your .tex file is and it'll pick up (useful if you can't become root)
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f
G -----> H G
p \ /_ ----- ~ f(G)
\ / f ker f
G/ker f