-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote: > > 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 cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFSNzhv8UcC1qRZVMRAoKAAJ4+opDmUvEvSQ1Y8YSLBxYe8eBu4ACgjMYT 5m2EPGQXlSJAq4K3FhIc9ss= =d+X0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
