On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 > >#1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated > >some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive > >(initially including texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-common and > >subsequently texlive-all). After this, the system cannot find the ams.sty > >file for the American Mathematical Society package (which should > >apparently be installed with texlive-base -- this package is listed as > >installed at version 2007-4). > > > >Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either. > > > >Any ideas what could be going wrong? > > Wasn't ams.sty deprecated years ago? And wasn't it amstex.sty? > amsmath.sty is in texlive-latex-base. amssymb.sty is in texlive-base. > Why they're separated, I have no idea.
You are right. For some reason I had included the ams package in the latex file I was working on as well as the amsmath package. Deleting the reference to ams solved the problem. Thanks for the help!, Peter > > -- > Michael A. Marsh > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh > http://mamarsh.blogspot.com > http://36pints.blogspot.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
