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I'm trying to add the windycity style to biblatex on my Ubuntu 19.04 system.

The windycity styles consist of 4 styles - https://github.com/brianchase/windycity

I have tried:

1) to put the files in relevant directories in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/windycity.dbx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/windycity.bbx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/cbx/windycity.cbx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/american-windycity.lbx

2) looking at the structure with other dbx files and duplicating:

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-windycity/windycity.dbx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-windycity/windycity.bbx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-windycity/windycity.cbx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-windycity/american-windycity.lbx

3) putting the files in my document directory:

/home/tim/Documents/TuteReview/windycity.dbx
/home/tim/Documents/TuteReview/bbx/windycity.bbx
/home/tim/Documents/TuteReview/cbx/windycity.cbx
/home/tim/Documents/TuteReview/lbx/american-windycity.lbx

I'm using the command in my document: \usepackage[style=windycity]{biblatex} Without the style in brackets, it compiles without error.

I'm not sure what version of biblatex I have. apt list --installed|grep biblatex shows nothing.

timbo
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    Never put personal stuff into texmf-dist. It belongs in texmf-local. Did you remember to run texhash or similar afterwards (presumably as root). Latex does search the file system at essh run as it is a very slow process, we build a list of the files (via texhash) And search the list – daleif Aug 04 '19 at 07:05
  • It may make sense to install a vanilla TeX live from TUG instead of the (often outdated and frozen) TeX live from the Ubuntu repositories. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1092/35864 – moewe Aug 04 '19 at 09:07

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Copy the four files to $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/biblatex-windycity/ where your can find $TEXMFHOME from:

kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

LaTeX will search this automatically under Ubuntu (at least it does under Debian). There is no need to run texhash.

David Purton
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  • Thankyou. I had some really strange behaviour where the contents of $TEXMFHOME were deleted but now I can use \usepackage[style=windycity]{biblatex} – timbo Aug 05 '19 at 00:56