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For college, we are supposed to hand in uncompiled .tex files for the teacher to make the .pdf themselves. However, college computers have very few packages installed ; but I have heard somewhere that one can include the package along with the .tex source. I cannot find a guide on how to do this, can someone explain how or provide a link for me ?

I am not asking how to normally use packages, rather how to include them for compilation on a system where installing packages directly is not possible.

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    It's probably worth asking your teacher, what you could in theory do vs what they will allow/do in practice are different questions. It may be they only want certain packages to be used, or they may be compiling on a separate full distribution. – Dai Bowen May 19 '23 at 17:01
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    TeX distributions usually find files in the document directory first. So, e.g., an article.cls file in the document directory would be used, even if the TeX distribution itself has a file with the same name. However, adding package files that are usually provided by the TeX distribution to the document directory is not really a good idea, but a source of difficult-to-assess problems in the medium to long term. – cabohah May 19 '23 at 17:04
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    just place the .sty in the same folder and it will be loaded. but some packages are just one file some like tikz are dozens and some require fonts... – David Carlisle May 19 '23 at 17:04
  • Bundle packages with a document - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange but it may or may not work – user202729 May 23 '23 at 16:54

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