-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070909 01:14]: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upgrade to >>> Lenny recently. >>> >>> I wonder the current status of tetex -> texlive transition. Is there >>> going to be any known problem during the upgrade? Do I need to purge >>> some related packages in advance? Thank you. >>> >>> $ aptitude search ~i~ntetex >>> i A tetex-base - Basic TeX input files of teTeX >>> i A tetex-bin - The teTeX programs >>> i A tetex-doc - The documentation component of the >>> i tetex-extra - Additional TeX input files of teTeX >>> >>> - -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Wei Chen >>> http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ >> I am no expert, but I do make extensive use of texlive daily. > >> This matter has been discussed on this list over the past several >> months (see the list archives). Some have had problems upgrading from >> tetex to texlive; others have upgraded without difficulty. > >> The approach which I took -- which appears to provide the best >> guarantee against problems -- is not to upgrade, but simply to >> completely uninstall tetex (that is, not only uninstall, but also >> purge the tetex configuration files), and then install texlive. > >> As to the tetex -> texlive transition, there appear to be a few >> packages which run under tetex but not texlive. I personally have not >> encountered such packages. However, the fact of the matter is that >> tetex no longer is supported, so eventually packages which once worked >> under tetex are going to quit working under tetex. > >> Otherwise, once texlive is installed, it appears to me to work exactly >> as did tetex. I have no complaints. > > > Thank you for your response. I shall do accordingly, i.e. purge the > tetex related packages and then upgrade, and report the result later. >
The upgrade went all right except for a lot of warning messages from perl complaining that locale cannot be set and some error messages about not being able to connecting to a certain website, which I thought were not related to the texlive transition. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG5QtCCIqXQV6BF28RAujHAKC47RDWxYTgHZveKmbcRfHsAu9wjgCfZw+W 9z9vG/E3E2QyNAfx1BMSD0w= =ocNh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
