Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:00:13 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Saifi <saifi@twincling.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .bst files installation Message-ID: <44vek6uylu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20061219043541.17245.qmail@coolhost77.com> (saifi@twincling.org's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:05:41 %2B0530") References: <20061219043541.17245.qmail@coolhost77.com>
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"Saifi" <saifi@twincling.org> writes:
>> From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
>> Subject: Re: .bst files installation
>> Sent: 19 Dec '06 00:20
>>
>> "Saifi" <saifi@twincling.org> writes:
>>
>> > Which package in ports need to be installed in order to have .bst files installed ?
>> >
>> > The .bst files are required when specifiying the \bibliographystyle{} in .tex files.
>>
>> Note that you are using LaTeX, not TeX.
>> Any version of LaTeX should do (if I remember correctly; I don't have
>> it installed on my booted machines, and I haven't used BibTeX since
>> the days of LaTeX 2.09). These days, the print/teTeX port is
>> the most common way to install TeX and its common utilities.
>>
>
> Hi Lowell:
>
> Thanks for your mail.
>
> On the FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 system, latex is already installed.
>
> Now, when I try to install teTex, it conflicts with the existing installation.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> bsd# make install
> ===> Installing for teTeX-3.0_1
>
> ===> teTeX-3.0_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
> dvips-5.76
> latex2e-2003.12_1
> tex-3.14159_3
>
> They install files into the same place.
> Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bibliographic style files are required by Bibtex and so I thought
> that there would be a single independent package (like mplayer codecs)
> that would need to be installed.
Possible, but since I have teTeX installed, I can't really experiment
with how the relevant ports work. I recommend following the
directions listed, removing the conflicting ports, and just installing
teTeX. It will do everything the installed ports do, and then some.
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