Re: flavours of LaTeX
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:42:26PM +0000, michael wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
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> > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote:
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> > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex
> > > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been
> > > a question during installation about pdflatex but I'm not sure if I
> > > remember correctly. If so I guess I can remove --purge and re-install
> > > but I was presuming there was another/better way?
> > >
> > > Thanks, M
> > Hi M,
> > I have been not really following the total discussion, but I have an
> > observation: sometimes there are programs that can be called more than
> > one way and that the way they are called affect how they works.
> > E.g. grep is a program and egrep is a shell script that calls grep with
> > specific options.
> >
> > Maybe $TEX_PROGRAM_1 and $TEX_PROGRAM_2 are just calling
> > $ACTUAL_TEX_PROGRAM with different options?
> >
> > as for reconfiguring a package:
> > dpkg-reconfigure -plow $PKGNAME
> > will reconfigure a package with the most questions asked
> > dpkg-reconfigure -phigh $PKGNAME
> > will reconfigure a package with the least questions asked
> >
>
> ah, that's useful! care to remind me how to determine which package
> something came in? eg for the command 'latex'? or is it not that
> simple? ;)
>
dpkg -S $FILENAME
would find the owner of a file that is installed currently. apt-file
will find the owner of a file for any package that can be installed in
debian.
Kev
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