Christoph Martin wrote: > > Alain Nadeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Just a quick word of thanks and congratulations to Christoph Martin for > > his porting Thomas Esser's TeTeX to Debian. One word: superb. It was the > > one thing I missed from my pre-Debian days. Thanks also to Craig Sanders > > for his purge & install script! It did the trick. > > > > Ups... Did I miss this script? Where did he send it? I'm just trying > to get upgrade smoother. > > Could you send it to me? > > Thanks, > Christoph >
Well, perhaps I overstated what I meant. There was a bit of a confusion right after the package was released as to what the correct install procedure was, ie: purge the old TeX/LaTeX first, and only then install TeTeX. Craig just posted the following as being a correct way of doing it: dpkg --purge --force-depends amslatex amstex babel bibtex dvipsk kpathsea kpathsea-dev latex latex2e-doc ltxmisc ltxtool makeindex mfbasfnt mfdcfnt mflib mfnfss ps2pk psnfss texbin texi2html texinfo texlib texpsfnt textmf xdvik Then use dpkg or dselect to install the tetex packages. (assuming you have a mirror of debian mounted at /debian:) cd /debian dpkg -i bo/binary/tex/tetex-base_0.4pl6-2.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-bin_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-dev_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-doc_0.4pl6-1.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-extra_0.4pl6-2.deb I called it a "script" (perhaps wrongly), maybe "procedure" would have been more to the point. In any event, it had made clear to me (not a dpkg scholar) how to smoothly get the thing done. Thanks again for TeTeX, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
