Re: app-default file for xdvi?

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Trinity Neo writes:
 > I'm running the Debian Woody distro thingy.  I've been
 > trying to install the tetex-base and tetex-extra
 > packages, but I always always get the following error
 > (on a blue screen, no less!):
 > 
 > could not find app default file for xdvi
 > 
 > and then the installation squawks and quits.  As a
 > consequence, I can not latex any of my documents
 > (forget even xdvi'ing them)..

Please tell us wether you have tetex-base fully installed.

Christoph