Am Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:14:09 -0300 schrieb José Romildo Malaquias <j.romi...@gmail.com>:
> Hello. Hi, > What is the best way of updating a given LaTeX package in gentoo to the > latest available version on CTAN? > > The installed version of tcolorbox is 2.32, provided by > dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2013, and I need version 2.51, available > on CTAN. > > There used to be a package called g-ctan that could be used in this > situation. But it has been masked. > > Any clues? I was curious myself, and from what I found there are only two ways to go about this: - if you install texlive outside of portage, using for example the network install, you can use tlmgr to install packages (https://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html) - install the package manually into $TEXMFHOME (usually ~/texmf, see the output of "kpsexpand '$TEXMFHOME'") For both I found instructions at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installing_Extra_Packages (a pretty good wikibook in general IMHO). Also, I found some better (AFAICT) instructions at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30307/how-to-install-latex-zip-package-from-ctan-using-texhash-on-a-nix-system. Or maybe you can see if you can get someone to update the g-ctan package, which is masked due to incorrect dependencies (it depends on the now non-existent texlive 2011 packages). But really, I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be a tool that can install packages from CTAN locally into $TEXMFHOME directly. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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