Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Latex (Tex live) update on Macosx

I recently had a problem with my Latex distribution. I was missing a package and as you may probably know, there are so many Tex distributions and it is difficult to keep up-to-date the installation. Updates work for a year and then you need to install tex distribution once more if you want to get new packages that were not there or updated for the new distribution. In these cases, manual installation could be helpful... What I did for manual installation:
- Copied the .sty file to /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex  (note that this may change in your system)
- Ran texhash (with sudo).

Good luck...