Latex (Debian and Tetex). Was: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
>
> On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote:
> >>As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out
> >Linux for the past few months and I am impressed
> >escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian
> >LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine.
> >
>
> What sort of troubles did you ecperience with the Debian LaTeX package? I ask
> because I have had some trouble too, and was wondering if these were caused by
> the Debian TeX distribution or the newer TeX's in general.
I had a lot of permission-problems. Sometimes I could only run dvips
> and dvilj as root. It was very slow. There was a problem with the
> dc-fonts. I could not use "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" and so on.
> Also, how do you go about getting/installing TeTeX in Debian?
I copied i386-linux.tar.gz and teTeX-lib-0.4pl1.tar.gz to /usr/local
and untarred it. I kept my debian AucTeX because I use emacs.
Then I made some symlinks to /etc/texfm
The relevant files in /etc/texfm are:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Oct 31 09:43 color.cfg ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/color.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Oct 31 09:43 graphics.cfg ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/graphics.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Oct 31 09:43 latex.ini ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/latex.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Oct 31 09:43 latex209.cfg ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/latex209.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Oct 31 09:43 lplain.tex ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/lplain.tex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Oct 31 09:43 ltxdoc.cfg ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/ltxdoc.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Oct 31 09:43 ltxguide.cfg ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/ltxguide.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Oct 31 09:43 texsys.cfg ->
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex//config/texsys.cfg
I had no problems so far with TeTeX.
Regards.
Johann
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Johann Spies
jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za
Windsorlaan 19
Pietermaritzburg
3201
Suid Afrika (South Africa)
Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310
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