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To: Alan Krantz <atk@mathcs.emory.edu>
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Subject: Re: Problems with tex under 2.2.1 (cdrom) 
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From: Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen <pvl@nanoteq.com>
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> 
> I'm having a number of problems with tex/latex. I've tried installing it
> twice - first when I installed freebsd 2.2.1 from the first cdrom and again
> from the "live file system" cdrom. (I had none of the below problems with 2.0)
> 
> When I tried to build tex - i get:
> 1)
> mv: tex-archive/fonts/cm: No such file or directory
> mv: tex-archive/systems/knuth/lib: No such file or directory
> mv: tex-archive/macros/plain: No such file or directory
> --
What tex did you try to build? I've build the teTeX port a number of times without any
problems except that it is very large. IMHO teTeX is probably the best port/package
as it contains  almost everything you need.

> 2)
> I cannot find latex209
Latex209 is a dinosaur, use latex2e.  All of your old latex209 documents should still 
compile under latex2e. Latex2e comes with teTeX

> 3) 
> when i run xdvi i get
[snip]

These font related problems usually go away when you install the teTex packages/port 
properly.

My advice is to build the port, because TeX and family seems to be very system 
dependant. All your font files and other stuff will then be in the proper places.

Good luck and happy texing
pierre

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Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen
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