Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:04:53 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> Cc: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>, Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LaTeX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970409190046.27913A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <334BBBF3.41C67EA6@mdstud.chalmers.se>
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Tommy Hallgren wrote: > Jay D. Nelson wrote: > > > > Get rid of the link in /usr/local/bin and add the teTeX path to $PATH. > > (/usr/local/teTeX/bin on my machine.) Make sure there are no links to > > anything having to do with TeX in /usr/local/bin. > > Jay, there is no tex binary at all. And there is no tetex/bin-directory > neither. For me to get a tex-binary, I have to install the tex-package = > duplicate installation of some the binaries. > > As far as I can tell, there must be something wrong with the > tetex-package, it's just not complete. :-( But before I say too much, is > it the binary called "tex" I need, or is virtex or initex something I > should use instead? I have those two files at least. > > Mvh: Tommy - I'm not a TeX-guru. > Some basic TeX: There's no such thing as a TeX binary. TeX is not a binary but a set of macros for the TeX virtual machine. virtex *is* the tex virtual machine. The same goes for LaTeX, mf, SliTeX and all others TeX derivatives. The *only* binary needed to run those is virtex. initex is used to generate a binary representation of the macros that make up such a package from the source. It is used when installing a TeX application. Also man tex, virtex, initex and friends (when you have them working ;-) ). For your problem - first pkg_delete all the TeX related packages you installed, then *manually* remove (or at least rename) anything that looks to you as having to do with TeX, and then reinstall the package. I haven't installed teTeX lately (last time I installed the package was on a 2.1.5R machine) but when I did it was very smooth. Nadav
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