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Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?

I am using (as a newbie) texmaker to create documents on linux. I am making my first attempt at a local class (hartley.cls), derived from article, but with some minor modifications. Having seen elsewhere that I should store the class file in the directory which 

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME

tells me I have put it in ~/texmf

However as soon as I try and run texmaker on a document which uses this class so I can test things it errors out with 

! LaTeX Error: File `hartley.cls' not found.

So. what am I doing wrong?

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  • You can keep custom files in the local working directory (that is, whereever the .tex file is.) Or if you put them in $TEXMFHOME you should run texhash. I think there have been similar questions to this already. Might be worth having a search... – Seamus Nov 25 '12 at 12:27
  • My current document is in a project directory, whereas the "house style" I am trying to write is aimed at a whole set of documents I want to translate from to latex from several projects. I have tried searching for for this in depth - the ONLY advice I have seen is putting it ~/texmf and I can't make it work. Now someone has closed this question saying its an exact duplicate - but I can't find any duplicate of this question and I don't have an answer and no thread in which to discuss what I might be doing wrong. – akc42 Nov 25 '12 at 19:07
  • I tried running texhash on ~/texmf but it didn't change anything. $TEXMFHOME is not set to anything - is this a Debian issue - should it have been set – akc42 Nov 25 '12 at 19:18
  • I set $TEXMFHOME to ~/texmf but it hasn't changed anything – akc42 Nov 25 '12 at 19:20
  • I eventually found the answer - and it by no means clear in any of the other answers I found. The answer is that it needs to go in ~/texmf/tex/latex. This subdirectory hierarchy is important - without it it doesn't work – akc42 Nov 26 '12 at 18:48

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