Re: Stupid LaTex question?
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 13:06, Daniel C. Simkins Jr. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with the installation of LaTex on my Woody system,
> hoping someone can point me to the right place.
>
> Background: Installed Potato 2.2r5 from CD's, then did a net upgrade
> to Woody
>
> Problem: LaTex doesn't have the ams packages, and, though I installed
> them from AMS, still doesn't work, it looks like my base LaTex install
> may be hosed.
>
> Questions:
>
> -I look at both Potato and Woody package lists from the Debian
> webpage, but neither LaTex, nor Tex are listed, but a bunch of packages that
> require LaTex *are* there. So how did LaTex get on my system in the
> first place? Clearly LaTex must come in one of the packages, but I
> can't figure out which one.
>
> -How can I get rid of it ( besides using find and rm by hand), and
> re-install it?
>
> -I'd be happy to start and install LaTex from scratch getting the
> tarball from Gnu, and installing the AMS packages from scratch from
> AMS. However, it appears that the already installed LaTex is in a
> non-standard location, and I am concerned that I won't get the old
> LaTex removed properly first.
>
> - Anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
It's been a couple of years since I used (La)TeX, but everything should
be in the tetex packages: tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, and
possibly tetex-doc. You can remove these packages and install by hand
if you wish, or if (as I suspect) you are missing one or more of these
packages, you can install the missing ones to get the missing
functionality. I thought the AMS packages were included by default in
the tetex-* packages, but I may be mistaken.
HTH,
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes
at Dartmouth College
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