Installing things on a (La)TeX system

Installing (or replacing) things on your (La)TeX system has the potential to be rather complicated; the following questions attempt to provide a step-by-step approach, starting from the point where you’ve decided what it is that you want to install:

• You must find the file you need;
• If you are going to install a LaTeX package, you may need to unpack the distributed files;
• It may be necessary to generate some documentation to read;
• You need to decide where to install the files;
• You must now install the files; and finally
• You may need to tidy up after the installation.

This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=installthings