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Re: ams.sty not found after updating to texlive



On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <Peter.Robinson@t-online.de> wrote:
> >I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 
> >#1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated 
> >some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive 
> >(initially including texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-common and 
> >subsequently texlive-all). After this, the system cannot find the ams.sty 
> >file for the American Mathematical Society package (which should 
> >apparently be installed with texlive-base -- this package is listed as 
> >installed at version 2007-4).
> >
> >Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either.
> >
> >Any ideas what could be going wrong?
> 
> Wasn't ams.sty deprecated years ago?  And wasn't it amstex.sty?
> amsmath.sty is in texlive-latex-base.  amssymb.sty is in texlive-base.
> Why they're separated, I have no idea.


You are right. For some reason I had included the ams package in the latex file I was working on as well as the amsmath package. Deleting the reference to ams solved the problem.

Thanks for the help!, Peter














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