Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What about TEX specific environment variables as sugested in the output? Unset all of them for installation.
Christoph > > 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 > ---------------------------------- > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ---------------------------------- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- ============================================================================ Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
