[therion-users] TeX paths

[Wookey]

On Mon 07 Apr, Wookey wrote:
> Debian does not really like to use environment variables to make
> applications run so the little script that does:
> #!/bin/sh
> THERION=${THERION:-/usr/share/therion}
> MPINPUTS=${MPINPUTS:-.:$THERION/mpost:}
> TEXINPUTS=${TEXINPUTS:-.:$THERION/tex:}
> export THERION MPINPUTS TEXINPUTS
> exec /usr/bin/therion.bin "$@"
> 
> before running therion is something of a bodge. A better solution was to
> set the compiled defaults correctly (they are already in fact) for finding
> things in /etc and /usr/share/therion and to install the metapost and TeX
> macros in the right places for TeX and Metapost to find them.
> 
> So, I asked on a list and was told that I should put them in subdirs in
> /usr/share/texmf and then run texhash to update the index.
> 
> So I have installed the metapost macros in
> /usr/lib/texmf/metapost/therion/* and the TeX macros in
> /usr/lib/texmf/therion/* and run texhash, which has indeed updated
> /usr/lib/texmf/ls-R

sorry - that should have been written
/usr/share/texmf/ throughout - brain failure.
Please answer on that basis



Wookey
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