[tex-live] Getting TeX Live installed in /usr/local to see an .sty installed in /usr/share

[Lars Madsen]

Here is what I do for our NFS shared installation
(I like to *not* have our in house stuff in texmf-local)



in /path/texlive/

I have

2014/
texmf-imf/

and in 2014/texmf.cnf

I have

% define IMF tree
TEXMFIMF = $SELFAUTOPARENT/../texmf-imf
 
% adding IMF tree
TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFIMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST}
SYSTEXMF = $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFMAIN;$TEXMFIMF;$TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFDIST
TEXMFDBS = {!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFIMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST,!!$TEXMFDOC}


So you could just define your version of TEXMFIMF to be a specific (full) path to the root of there sage installed stuff.

(Here $SELFAUTOPARENT is /path/texlive/2014)






/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf


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Subject: [tex-live] Getting TeX Live installed in /usr/local to see an .sty installed in /usr/share

I installed TeX Live using the network install in /usr/local (as it is by default).

The value of TEXMFHOME is ~/texmf and of TEXMFLOCAL is /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. However, my Linux distribution's package manager installed sagetex.sty in /usr/share/texmf and its documentation in /usr/share/doc. What is the best way to get TeX Live to see those two, without copying anything over? I read that modifying TEXMFLOCAL to include multiple trees is not encouraged (and even if it included /usr/share/texmf, texdoc still wouldn't find the documentation in /usr/share/doc). So, is there any alternative?

Thanks.