Re: Newbie Q - How to install a package?

Joseph Wright wrote:
On Feb 28, 10:38 am, Ulrike Fischer <ne...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:02:27 -0800 (PST) schrieb Joseph Wright:

localtexmf is a folder where you can put/install files (if you have
declared it as root), but not a repository.
In modern MikTeX, the local tree is not at C:\localtexmf but at C:
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MikTeX\2.x\... as
that is the more "official" way of doing things under Windows.
In modern MikTeX there is no specific local tree. There can be up to 4
local trees installed by MikTeX (UserConfig, UserData, CommonConfig,
CommonData), and it makes much sense to declare more local trees.

Okay, better would have been to say that with a default installation,
the common local tree is located as I indicated.

I couldn't disagree more. First off, Microsoft discourages users from mucking about in the Application Data folder strongly enough that it is invisible by default. Second, MiKTeX 2.7 explicitly marks that folder a "MiKTeX-maintained root directory" in the settings dialog (though 2.6 does not). Both of these strongly suggest to me that it is *not* intended to be a user-maintained local tree.

Alan
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