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# Installing using ready-built ZIP files

Installing packages, as they ("traditionally") appear on CTAN, involves :

- identifying where to put the various files on an TDS tree,
- installing them, and
- a few housekeeping operations.

Most people, for most packages, find the first two steps onerous, the last being easy (unless it is forgotten!).

Ready-built ZIP files --- also known as [TDS-ZIP files](faquk:FAQ-tds-zip) --- are designed to lighten the load of performing the first two steps of installation : they contain all the files that are to be installed for a given package, in their "correct" locations in a [TDS tree](faquk:FAQ-tds).

To install such a file on a Unix system (we assume that you'll install into the local TEXMF tree, at `$TEXMFLOCAL`) :

```bash
cd $TEXMFLOCAL
unzip $package.tds.zip
```

On a Windows system that is modern enough that it has a built-in ZIP unpacker, simply double-click on the file, and browse to where it's to be unpacked. (We trust that those using earlier versions of Windows will already have experience of using `WinZIP` or the like.)

Having unpacked the `zip` archive, in most cases the only remaining chore is to update the file indexes --- as in [normal installation instructions](faquk:FAQ-inst-wlcf). However, if the package provides a font, you also need to enable the font's map, which is discussed in "[Installing a Type 1 font](faquk:FAQ-instt1font)

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