Where to put local Latex *.sty files under Fedora11

[Joerg Bergmann]

Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 09:30 -0600 schrieb reg at dwf.com:
> There used to be a place to put local *.sty files for Latex so that they would 
> be found.  Under the current latex under Fedora11 I cant figure out where
> that directory might be and am having to copy them into the directory
> with the *.tex file to get them recognized.  Not nice.
> 
> Any Latex users out there that know the answer?
> 
> [[ The Latex System seems to be looking in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/<filename
> >/*.sty
>   but there must be an index to this directory somewhere, as just putting a 
> new Local
>   directory in there with the files in it does no good.  Thoughts on that 
> approach??? ]]
You are right. Simply create a subdirectoy, e.g.
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/private/
place your *.sty-files there and run mktexlsr as root.

Joerg