Paul Rightley writes: > teTeX does seem to install now (and I do not have the TeX environment > variables set... To me, this is not right. This means that I cannot > use dselect to remove the teTeX packages and then reinstall them without > executing commands not related to dselect. Is this a fault with one of > the install scripts? It has apparently bitten several people other > then myself.
Please tell me which variables you had to unset so I can add them to the scripts. The install-scripts unset: TETEXDIR= TEXMF= TEXINPUTS= C. Martin > > Thanks for such a great distribution, > > Paul > > On 23-Jun-97 Christoph Martin wrote: > >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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .