Big problem with TeX/LaTeX
I was wondering if anyone has run into this lately and if it is something
I am doing wrong...
I have used the 'new' tetex packages of Debian for some time now. I was
recently 'forced' to remove X and tex from my machine temporarily. Now I
have X back and running, but am having problems getting the tetex packages
to install and work. (I have seen at least one other posting describing
one of the symptoms I am having.)
I start with a 'tex-clean' system. Then I do a dpkg -i tetex-base_0.4pl6-5.deb
This seems to work fine. Then I do dpkg -i tetex-bin_0.4pl6-8.deb and things
start going wrong. When it tries to configure the package, it produces errors
like:
>Please set the environment variable TETEXDIR or TEXMFCNF correctly.
>For details see the teTeX and the Kpathsea manual
>kpsetool: language.dat not found.
>kpsetool: modes.mf not found.
>kpsetool: texmf.cnf not found.
>/usr/bin/texconfig: cd: /web2c: No such file or directory
>Error opening terminal: generic.
>/usr/bin/texconfig: /tmp/texconf4119/logfile: No such file or directory
>Output of initex is in /tmp/texconfig.out
>If you want to change the default settings,
>use /usr/bin/texconfig to configure teTeX.
Running /usr/bin/texconfig produces similar errors. Now, when I go to
latex something, I get
>This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
>I can't find the default format file!
Which is the symptom reported recently in this mail list.
What should I do to get a working latex installation?
Paul
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Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940
Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359
Email: Paul Rightley <pright@lanl.gov>
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