Re: finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
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- Subject: [mg54140] Re: finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
- From: David <habud at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:34:27 -0500 (EST)
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Not sure if you already know this, but you need to set a Mathematica WinXP environment variable to top level path of your separate 3rd party add-ons path. EG, MATHEMATICA_USERBASE=D:\YourDesiredPath\Mathematica This can be done under the WinXP "System Properties->Advanced" tab, then look at the bottom for the "Environment Variables" button. You'll need to restart Mathemetica after applying this new variable. With this set, Mathematica will search for 3rd-party packages under the the path: D:\YourDesiredPath\Mathematica\Applications Also, if you want a package autoloaded, add the subdirectory "Autoload", eg: D:\YourDesiredPath\Mathematica\Autoload Hope this helps. Also, your personalized preferences should get stored under D:\YourDesiredPath\Mathematica. BTW, I believe WRI's doc's on this are very poorly organized. You can't find all this info in one convenient place. Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Moving Enhancements to be a direct subdirectory of $UserBaseDirectory > did NOT work for me! Neither > > <<Enhancements`RootSearch` > > nor > > <<RootSearch` > > find RootSearch.m. > > One thing that does work is to move Enhancements to be a subdirectory of > ToFileName[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Applications"}]. > > But what I was hoping for was some way of setting some environment > variable, e.g., so that Mathematica would search subdirectories of > $UserBaseDirectory other than just Applications and its subdirectories. > > > DrBob wrote: > >>Eliminate the "ExtraPackages" layer in the directory structure. >> >>Bobby >> >>On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:27:48 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg >><murray at math.umass.edu> wrote: >> >> >>>Various packages suggest they should be installed in subdirectories of >>>ExtraPackages. For example, Ersek's RootSearch.m, is to be installed in >>>subdirectory Enhancements of ExtraPackages. >>> >>>I keep all such 3rd party add-ons in a directory tree separate from the >>>Mathematica install directory tree. Namely, in a directory to which >>>$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). >>> >> >> >> >
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- finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`