Hi list! I needed to install ctable which as far as I know is not included in Debian. I found a script "getlatex" on http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/DocProcess/getlatex for installing additional latex packages. I modified it to use $TEXMFLOCAL from /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, and install into that dir. I see that $TEXMFLOCAL defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf. However, when the original author of getlatex tested my modified version of getlatex it became apparent that /usr/local/share/texmf did not exist on his Debian system. It seems that only /usr/local/lib/texmf is created automatically in the postinst of tetex-base $ grep /usr/local /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex* /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:mkdir /usr/local/lib/texmf 2> /dev/null || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/texmf 2> /dev/null || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/texmf 2> /dev/null || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:mkdir /usr/local/lib/texmf/doc 2> /dev/null || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/texmf/doc 2> /dev/null || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/texmf/doc 2> /dev/null || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst:#(cd /usr/doc/texmf; rm -f local; ln -s /usr/local/lib/texmf/doc local 2> /dev/null) Since $TEXMFLOCAL defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf, why not create that dir automatically? May I suggest that you include getlatex or another script with similar functionality in /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/examples/ ? Kind regards, -- Note that I use Debian version 3.1 Linux samir 2.6.9-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 02:52:40 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Never trust a message that appears to come from me but is not signed with GPG! It is most likely SPAM or a VIRUS sent by someone who has my adress and got infected. My public key, ID 7050614E, is available from the HKP key servers and here: http://sociologi.cjb.net/~hans/key.txt
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