On Friday 26 January 2001 01:14, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> If you just throw the SuSE in without special optimizations, you probably
> could save lots of space (maybe even couple of hundred megabytes) by
> removing unneeded (parts of) packages. After that and...
I scrutinized the installation in order to avoid superfluous packages, then
removed some more as I realized I was not using them. (Netscape, Emacs...) I
usually do not delete pieces of packages, just remove the whole thing. With
some things, I build my own RPMs, but not with huge ones. (Qt2, for instance,
took 4 hours to compile, and then did not install correctly!)
> > updates, and currently have only 75MB left on /usr. This is not enough
> > space
>
> ...this it certainly should be possible to install small LaTeX on it.
This weekend I freed enough space to install tetex and latex (71MB!). In a
couple hours of Web research I was not able to find a distribution aimed at
taking up as little space as possible, and since I do not have the resources
here to compile from source (which would allow me to specify only what I
need), I used the packages from the SuSE CD. These seem to be built with all
bells and whistles. I may get adventurous and delete things later, but I
usually prefer not to do that.
As it is, texconfig will not run, complaining that it can't find texmf.cnf,
and then tries to load /usr/share/texmf, which is a directory. However, the
rest of TeX seems to work, so I can ignore that for now.
> > actually need to print these documents, though it would be nice to have
> > LyX available to write letters and such -- I could remove KOffice to free
> You might not need TeX. If you need "pretty output" (other than just
> ASCII), you could use tth or some other TeX->HTML converter which doesn't
> need LaTeX.
Thanks for the suggestion! For the moment, I don't think I need to go that
route, but I was considering it.
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