David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> writes: > On 09/01/2012 08:33 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: >> Sorry for the noise, John. I should have read the whole thread more >> carefully. >> >> I have a machine where I did a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 just a week >> ago, so it is pretty clean. I get: >> >> alant@windy:~$ which latex >> /usr/bin/latex >> >> Further investication shows that this is a symlink to >> /usr/bin/pdftex.I'm not sure why you get the full path. > > His full path began with /usr/local -- not somewhere the distro should > use. That is for things the user installs, only, in my book.
I agree with that, but even then you would expect to see the executable in /usr/local/bin. >> >> Looking at the Ubuntu Software Centre shows me only texlive 2009 (rather >> old), but no other texlive options. I'm not sure where you got the 2011 >> or 2012 packages. Have you added a different repository? > > Debian testing is currently using 2012, but it took a long time for them > to update from 2009 to 2011 -- and then quickly went to 2012. I suspect > that the version of Ubuntu you are looking at is a stable version, which > is always pretty old. Yes, I have that also in Debian testing. The version of Ubuntu is 12.04 so I suppose that does account for the lag. But that is also the version that the OP is using, so where did he get the Texlive 2012. He says it shows up in the package managers, so I am guessing that he added a PPA. -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
