Dear community,
I am having problem natbib in linux (for latex). I have unziped the natbib.zip and and installed it through the following commands
$ latex natbib.ins
$ latex bibentry.ins
Some files are generated after these procedures. Now if I keep these files in my working directory (where I am writing my latex documents) the features of natbib are shown by the results. But I am confused where should I keep these files so that natbib works without keeping these files in my working directory. For convenience I am giving the names of the files generated bellow

abbrvnat.bst natbib.dtx natbib.ltx natnotes.aux natnotes.tex README.v83
bibentry.dtx natbib.dvi natbib.pdf natnotes.dvi plainnat.bst unsrtnat.bst
bibentry.ins natbib.ins natbib.sty natnotes.log README
natbib.aux natbib.log natbib.toc natnotes.pdf README.1st


Please help me out. Thank you in advance.

Have a look at this link.
http://www-math.upb.de/~aggathen/cc/install-natbib.html
Cheers,
jdk

Its not working. Can you please elaborate.

No, can you please elaborate? What distro and what kind of latex are you using (I use texlive).
You can have a look here:
http://people.debian.org/~preining/T...ining-talk.pdf
Look on page 11 (page 18 of the pdf) and all is explained.
FWIW on my installation I have:
cheers,
jdk

I am using fedora 8 distribution. About the type of latex I don't know. I just write .tex file through in a tex editor (like gedit) and compile it through latex command.
So can you tell where should I keep the above mentioned files.

They are usually placed in a .../texmf/tex/latex folder. Once you do that you'll need to run the texhash program to let your tex system know about them.
cheers,
jdk

Thanx a lot. Its working.