Re: check list for installation failure
From: Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>
Subject: Re: check list for installation failure
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:36:27 +0200
> > 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
>
> This one should not be a problem now, the fmtutil script has been fixed.
Yes but there might be users who run an old Debian system yet
so it might be not so bad to mention this for completeness.
> > - wrong hphenation or language.dat? (I do not know about this ;-)
>
> - modified texmf.cnf
> - wrong symbolic links (for configuration or TeX files)
> - user compiled its own TeX commands and executables are not the ones
> provided by Debian packages
I see.
> > 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.
>
> I fully agree, but we should not focus only to installation.
Yes you are right. I think if we can provide useful check
list then there might be much less (trivial/meaningless) bugs on
installation so we can concentrate on other essential bugs.
Best Regards, 2000.9.8
--
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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