Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

On Thu, 01 Jul 2021, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > Have been looking at the `TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex` problem.  The
> > conclusion from installing texinfo has been the difficulty in locating
> > the correct path for texmf.  We could write more detailed section about it.

[...]

> > texmf can be installed in a variety of places.  The manual (installation 
> > part)
> > should list some of the  possibilities where texmf could reside.
> 
> I don't know very much about it, is there documentation for TeX Live
> etc. that we could refer users to?

That is really hard to determine, because distributions and TeX Live
upstream might use completely different locations - not might, *are*
using ...

The best option is probably to install into
        kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
that is
        TEXMF=$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL) install-tex
Any other directory might get purged, deleted, ignored, whatever by
distribution package managers (apt, dnf, ...). TEXMFLOCAL is normally
rather stable.

Best

Norbert

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