From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 16 02:47:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08EF16A407 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:47:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [202.89.146.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2935943D46 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:47:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4908C56430; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:47:33 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:47:33 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: David Banning Message-ID: <20061016024733.GB84300@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20061016023319.GA71954@skytracker.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061016023319.GA71954@skytracker.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dvips conflict with teTeX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:47:37 -0000 On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:33:19PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > I have read a recent thread about the conflict between dvips and teTeX. > I get the error; > > dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): > teTeX-base-3.0_10 > teTeX-texmf-3.0_5 > > I need both packages. I have recently upgrade teTeX and noticed that > dvips was not working. Is there another way to convert dvi files to > ps? or maybe it's possible to create a postscript file directly from > latex? teTeX installs a copy of dvips; that's why you get a conflict error. The dvips port is primarily for systems that wish to use dvips without the TeX baggage. The dvips with teTeX should be the same as the dvips port version; it works fine for me. If you have a problem with it, perhaps you should describe the error to the list. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?