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Install custom TeX packages

I'm trying to install a custom Latex package (this Beamer template). I've tried to create a new directory under ...\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\texmf-local\, copy the .sty files and refresh Tinytex with tlmgr update --self -all tlmgr path add fmtutil-sys --all, but when I call pksewhich mypackage.sty it still doesn't shows.

Solution

  • The issue Install package manually #377 on TinyTeX github repo describes a way to do this.

    Steps are

    1. Create a texmf folder

      mkdir ~/texmf

    2. Then create TeX directory structure

      mkdir -p ~/texmf/tex/latex

    3. Then put the custom-latex-package folder under ~/texmf/tex/latex directory

    4. Then Add to TeX's "search PATH"

      tlmgr conf auxtrees add ~/texmf

    Then kpsewhich beamerthemesintef.sty returns

    c:/Users/User/texmf/tex/latex/custom_pkg/beamerthemesintef.sty

    and one caveat of this approach as @Yihui pointed out is that, you need to repeat the 4th step after upgrading or reinstalling TinyTeX.