finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
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- Subject: [mg54065] finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:27:48 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Various packages suggest they should be installed in subdirectories of ExtraPackages. For example, Ersek's RootSearch.m, is to be installed in subdirectory Enhancements of ExtraPackages. I keep all such 3rd party add-ons in a directory tree separate from the Mathematica install directory tree. Namely, in a directory to which $UserBaseDirectory points. Thus, RootSearch.m is in directory: ToFileName[{$UserBaseDirectory, "ExtraPackages", "Enhancements"}] Yet still a command such as <<Enhancements`RootSearch` or Needs["Enhancements`RootSearch`"] fails to find its target. How can I make this work? Platform: Mathematica 5.1 for Windows (XP). -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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