Re: Problems installing Tex,Latex, etc.
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Tex and Latex and would like to install it to learn
> more about it. However, after getting my machine configured, I
> tried to do an "ftp" install. This worked for the most part,
> except for a few packages that were in the Packages file but not
> on ftp.debian.org or ftp.caldera.com. What really bit the dust
> was texbin and latex. First, texbin choked on its postinstall
> script. I checked and it wasn't even doing anything! It gave an
> error 139. But when I ran it by hand, everything worked fine.
> So, I changed the post-inst to just echo "I did this by hand",
> and dpkg --configure texbin worked fine. I'm not sure this was a
> good idea though.
>
> The next thing to install was latex. This started going fine,
> but quickly filled up my disk with the latex.log file. This was
> growing larger than 400mb! I had to CTL-C out of it. I wound up
> uninstalling latex and all related components (dselect kicks
> ass).
>
Bad idea I think in fact... TeX needs all to be well configure...
Install the base font, the mf font, the mflib, etc... The only package I
doesn't catch how to install is auctex... he always throw me an error in
the installation script.
Good luck.
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