check list for installation failure
From: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Subject: Bug#70668: I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:49:43 -0700
> If you have problems with the installation, make sure that you
> don't have any TeX-related environment variables set in root's
> environment (especially TEXMF). You may need to modify any TEXMF
> variables in user shellrc files, and any scripts that assume the
> texmf tree is in /usr/lib (it's now in /usr/share/texmf).
Well, I think that there are some common reasons which cause the
failure of installing tetex-* packages.
- there is not enough room in HDD
- a user set wrong TEXMF, as pointed above
- latex (or tetex system) is too old
- wrong hphenation or language.dat? (I do not know about this ;-)
There might be some more but how about we gather these infomation
into some check list and provide it to users by some means.
This will help not only users but also tetex-maint, IMHO.
Best Regards, 2000.9.7
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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