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Re: Latex installation problem
- From: Dennis Allison <allison at sumeru dot stanford dot EDU>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, janneke at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:00:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: Latex installation problem
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> Dennis Allison <allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU> writes:
>
> > I've spent the better part of the morning trying to get latex and tex to work
> > on a vanilla binary download to a Win2000 machine.
>
> What packages did you install? Did you select and install texmf-tine
> or texmf-tiny too? Please rerun setup.exe and make sure to install
> one of these.
>
I installed the complete set of cygwin packages. The problem I am having
seems to be related to the fact that the teTex/texmf shipped with cygwin
is not configured to run out-of-the-box.
The installation procedure appears to require copying the various cfg
files ("frozen" in /usr/share/.../web2c) and then running texconfig
with various parameters. The documentation I was able to find is
out-dated and refers primarily to an earlier distribution approach.
My goal here is to get a latex2e system working. The closest I have
gotten so far is a report from TeX saying it cannot find latex.fmt
and/or some metafont components. Somewhere in the configuation process
I am missing something.
-d
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