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. --------------------------------------------------------------- Little Billy goes to the zoo: " Looks mom! an elephant like those on the Internet! " =============================================================== Fabien Ninoles aka Baggus Mage || Not knowing where you go [EMAIL PROTECTED] || always lead you to a http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || Baggus End... --------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
