-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:42:26PM +0000, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > -----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 > > > > ah, that's useful! care to remind me how to determine which package > something came in? eg for the command 'latex'? or is it not that > simple? ;) >
dpkg -S $FILENAME would find the owner of a file that is installed currently. apt-file will find the owner of a file for any package that can be installed in debian. 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) iD8DBQFFSOBlv8UcC1qRZVMRAqCcAJ9P6ue5iJSQ7YCC5Iq08ZtUTubQEACghIKY CvkKeENRZSSTT2Q7i+/0llA= =E5lP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
