I have created a courses.bib
database file for all my course litterature, which I have placed along with a package of mine named tlnames.sty
that defines some related macros. The folder in which both files reside is ~/documents/texlive/texmf/tex/latex/tlnames
.
I'm compiling this from inside TeXWorks using a modified version of the LaTeXmk script, which works fine except for the bibliography – it can't find courses.bib
. Finding tlnames.sty
works OK – I can import the package and use macros from it.
I have, since I placed courses.bib
there, run texhash ~/documents/texlive/texmf
and recievd the following output
$ texhash texmf
texhash: Updating /home/tomas/documents/texlive/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
Why is this not working? What do I need to do to help BiBTeX find my database?
For completeness of the question: I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, with TeX Live 2011 and TeXWorks version 0.5 r.952.
Best Answer
(Still running 11.10, but....)
I wouldn't put my
.bib
file there. If you want a system-wide solution, try running this command from the terminal:For me, that gives me a bunch of choices, including
So if I add a file like
test.bib
to:BibTeX and/or Biber can find this file even without using
texhash
. (This works from within emacs and from a terminal; I don't have TeXWorks.)