Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:56:43 -0800 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Jadetex and latex Message-ID: <200203190656.g2J6uhpZ057248@mail.meer.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> of "Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:39:03 EST." <20020319053903.GA28905@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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> You should uninstall teTeX, latex, texinfo, and any other tex-related ports. > By installing latex you have trashed your teTeX installation. > > Reinstall teTeX. Proceed from there. > > Check the ports Makefiles. Do NOT install anything which has the old "tex" > port as a dependency, since that will bring it in. > > Latex & texinfo and tex and metafont are all fully contained in the teTex > port. > > Maybe it's time for there to be a warning added to these older ports. This > is the second post in a month from someone who's trashed their teTeX install > inadvertantly. > Alas all goes well (I've got teTeX installed and removed all the above) but now I get: Transcript written on jadetex.log. pdftex -ini -progname=pdfjadetex "&pdflatex" pdfjadetex.ini This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (INITEX) Sorry, I can't find the format `pdflatex.fmt'; will try `pdfjadetex.fmt'. I can't find the format file `pdfjadetex.fmt'! *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/print/jadetex/work/jadetex. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/print/jadetex. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/print/jadetex. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/print/jadetex. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/print/jadetex. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/textproc/docproj. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/textproc/docproj. *** Error code 1 Stop in /music/ports/textproc/docproj. Further clues? Thanks, George -- George V. Neville-Neil gnn@neville-neil.com Neville-Neil Consulting www.neville-neil.com "We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself." al-Kindi (c 801-66) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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