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I am trying to install a local package draftwatermark to override an out-of-date version of the package, by applying the answer in How to have local package override default package .

I have placed the files draftwatermark.ins and draftwatermark.dtx from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/draftwatermark into the directory

~/texmf/tex/latex/draftwatermark

Unfortunately, based on version number, pdflatex is still using the global version. Therefore, I am wondering how I can interrogate pdflatex for its package search path, and modify it without root privileges.

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    You may have discovered that there's a small bug in the version of draftwatermark on CTAN; while the package has version 1.1, it still advertises itself as version 1.0; try kpsewhich draftwatermark.sty from the command line to see what path is used for loading it. However, you should first unpack draftwatermark.sty by running pdflatex on draftwatermark.ins – egreg Jan 31 '13 at 00:18
  • Also, the link above does not have draftwatermark.sty. Where can I get an authoritative version of this file? – merlin2011 Jan 31 '13 at 00:19

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It turned out that I did not realize I needed to run latex on the ins file to generate the sty. Previously I had been working with packages that already had the sty file.

When I ran latex on the .ins file and placed the sty file in the above directory, it worked correctly even though the bug with reporting is still there.

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