WinEdt ⇒ Where/how do I install my LateX Packages?

[steve de costa]

Hi,

I've been googling this for a while and after not good any results, I finally decided to post here. I am currently using WinEdt to edit my LateX Documents. I'm trying to compile one of the LateX documents but it tells me I'm missing some packages ("fullpage.sty" in this case).

I found the code for fullpage.sty on the internet. The question is, how do I install these packages into WinEdt?

Currently, WinEdt is installed at "C:\Program Files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt\" on my computer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[magicmoose]

WiinEdt is the text editor, but the program that takes your tex file and compiles it is called the latex distribution. The latex distribution is what has all the files that work on your tex file, and so it is the one that you install packages to. What distribution are you using?

[steve de costa]

I'm using MikTex.

Btw, is there any other compiler which you would recommend? Which might be better/easier to deal with?

Thanks

[magicmoose]

I use Miktex, it's fairly common and I haven't ever had any reason to look into another one.

To fix your problem, go to the start menu -> miktex -> package manager (from memory for Miktex 2.7 or maintenance -> package manager if you are using miktex 2.8) and you should be able to search for the specific package you want to install and right click on it and install it.

It is also a nice feature to install packages on-the-fly, you can enable this feature (in Miktex 2.8) by going start menu -> miktex -> maintenance -> settings, and I cant remember the path in Miktex 2.7 but it's pretty clear. There is a simple setting that says 'install misssing packages on-the-fly' you want to enable that and then whenever you need to install a package miktex will automatically download and install it then complete the compilation.

Hope that helped!

[steve de costa]

Thank you so much for your help.

I use Miktex, it's fairly common and I haven't ever had any reason to look into another one.

To fix your problem, go to the start menu -> miktex -> package manager (from memory for Miktex 2.7 or maintenance -> package manager if you are using miktex 2.8) and you should be able to search for the specific package you want to install and right click on it and install it.

It is also a nice feature to install packages on-the-fly, you can enable this feature (in Miktex 2.8) by going start menu -> miktex -> maintenance -> settings, and I cant remember the path in Miktex 2.7 but it's pretty clear. There is a simple setting that says 'install misssing packages on-the-fly' you want to enable that and then whenever you need to install a package miktex will automatically download and install it then complete the compilation.

Hope that helped!