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I'm using Linux Mint, with the TeX Live distro and Texmaker as my editor. Basically, I would like to be able to use llncs.cls as a document class without having to always put that file in with the document I'm trying to compile. Under MikTeX (which I used back when I used Windows), there was a way to resolve it by giving it a place to search for packages etc. if it couldn't find them normally. However, I have no idea how to do this in Linux. Could someone help me out?

Martin Schröder
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Koz Ross
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  • I think, your paths to the TeXLive distribution are corrupted or something is strange with TexMaker configuration. 11ncs.cls is not provided by TeXLive, is it? Did you have a look, whether that class file is installed in your TexLive distribution or not, for example another storage position could be /usr/local/share/texmf or something like that. –  Feb 16 '14 at 08:41

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All TeX Live installations allow for a “personal tree”; on GNU/Linux systems this tree is rooted in ~/texmf, where ~ stands for your home directory.

Just issue this pair of commands from a directory where you keep a copy of llncs.sty:

mkdir -p $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME)/tex/latex/llncs
cp llncs.cls $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME)/tex/latex/llncs/

Using ~/texmf instead of $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME) is possible, but the longer method is independent of where the “personal tree” actually is defined to be found at (on Mac OS X, with MacTeX, it's rooted in a different place).

After doing this, llncs.cls will be available for every LaTeX run, independently of the working directory.

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  • That's a good tutorial, do you think it should be merged into [http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1137/where-do-i-place-my-own-sty-files-to-make-them-available-to-all-my-tex-files](the canonical question on this topic)? – yo' Feb 17 '14 at 11:07
  • @tohecz Please, do! – egreg Feb 17 '14 at 11:48