Document Classes ⇒ How to use texhash ?

[thomasb]

Hello,
The Uni's .cls and .sty are in ~/texmf/tex/latex. Now, texhash does not see the texmf in my home directory.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

run kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME to verify if the TeX user directory is set and is that one,

Stefan

[thomasb]

run kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME to verify if the TeX user directory is set and is that one,

Hi,

The command answers : /home/myuser/texmf.

But texhash may need to be run as sudo, in which case, I'm not home...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

TeX automatically searches in the home directory, so the point is to have TEXMFHOME correctly set, running texhash would not be needed.

But you can run it on that tree:

texhash /home/myuser/texmf

and then there is no need for sudo.

Stefan

[thomasb]

But you can run it on that tree : texhash /home/myuser/texmf and then there is no need for sudo.

It worked, thanks ! So the steps are :

1. make the tree : ~/texmf/tex/latex ;
2. copy the .cls and .sty files in ~/texmf/tex/latex ;
3. check if TEXMFHOME is ~/texmf by running kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME ;
4. if not, add export TEXMFHOME=~/texmf in the .bashrc file and relog ;
5. run texhash ~/texmf ;
6. compile the document.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Thanks for writing up the complete steps!

By the way, it may also be good to use subdirectories below ~/texmf/tex/latex for classes or packages. It should work the same.

Stefan