Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-09 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Le 7 juin 09 à 06:48, Daniel Underwood a écrit : Installed texlive from ISO, and it all works perfectly now. Thanks folks! However, you may realize that ports installing LaTeX style files (or other things) usually do it in a directory that TeXlive is not aware of. You have to play a bit

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Daniel Underwood
Installed texlive from ISO, and it all works perfectly now. Thanks folks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread perryh
Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > > Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > >> Having trouble mounting the ISO: > > >> > > >> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig > > >

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: >> Roland Smith wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode >>>

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > >> Having trouble mounting the ISO: > >> > >> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode > >> -f ./texlve2008.iso`

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: >> Having trouble mounting the ISO: >> >> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode >> -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ >> mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied > > Regular user

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Having trouble mounting the ISO: > > [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode > -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ > mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied Regular users don't have read/write permis

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Daniel Underwood
Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied mount_cd9660: /dev: Block device required [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ Please help me figure this out. _

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Winefish works, and latex appears to be installed, but I get errors > > using code I know to be flawless. I suspect this relates to > > out-of-date latex on my machine. > > why not print/teTeX Because teTeX is unmaintained upst

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port, I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years old. When I tried to add latex via pkg_add, I had no success (I assumed the package was named latex, but it wasn't found). Winefish works, and latex appea

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Roland Smith writes: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: >> bf writes: >> >> >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. >> > >> > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done. >> >> Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > bf writes: > > >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. > > > > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done. > > Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually > ins

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:20:10PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. > Running the latex command on a .tex file, I keep getting this error: > > xcolor.sty 140 Undefined control > xcolor.sty 140 Emergency stop. > *exit co

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Glyn Millington
bf writes: >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. > > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done. Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually installing it as free-standing software is not too hard. Get it from here: http://

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:31:11PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I added the winefish package (LaTeX editor) and installed the > print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port, > I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years > old. When I tried to

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-05 Thread bf
> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done. First, try to diagnose your errors with TeTeX. You should probably be able to get this to work. The errors may have to do with your files, or the commands you are

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. "despite repeated attempts and a lot of talk, no one has introduced this into FreeBSD Ports yet" --> that's a shame... (La)TeX is a must-have tool for me. I usually do most of my LaTeX'ing in Linux, but I'd love to be able to use FreeBS

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-05 Thread bf
> MY QUESTION: Please help me to install the newest version of latex. > I'm using 7.2-RELEASE. Install the latest version available in FreeBSD Ports, which is in print/teTeX. If your program still doesn't function properly, then you're probably have to install a more recent version of TeX Live