pgf in local texmf does not work

Hi All,

I have installed fink as well as tetex distribution on my mac (leopard). the tetex package in fink contains a prehistoric version of pgf/tikz package (v1.0.1), while use some features from the pgf that requires a lot newer version. I tried to install a fresher version (v2.00) of pgf into my local texmf directory, however pdflatex includes the old one :-(

Here's what I did in detail:
- unzipped pgf into ~/Library/texmf/tex (for example, pgf.sty is in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.sty)
- reran texhash as root. Got the following as output:

texhash: Updating /Users/name/Library/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /sw/etc/texmf-config/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /sw/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /sw/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /sw/share/texmf-local/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /sw/var/lib/texmf/ls-R...

However if I try to compile a latex document, pdflatex still takes the tikz and pgf from the system, and not from my local directory.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
arturas

 

I left the old version. Removing the old version requires dropping directories from multiple places and does not look trivial. In addition, two pgf versions should perfectly be able to live together (in fact I have an old and the most fresh copy on my linux box)