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RE: tetex installation wierdness.


Sorry for the long delay...

[..]
> What windows versions are those running?

Test is running Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 and
dkms1301 is running Windows 2002 Service Pack 3.

[..]
> Can you be more explicit about 'some bits'?  The symlink is
> not in the package, it should be created during postinstall, 
> by /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh.

On test the /usr/share/texmf/web2c directory contains 5.2 MB. On
dkms1301 this figure is 0.6 MB.


> There were complaints before about the missing latex symlink, 
> but I've not managed to get a useful bugreport (that's why 
> I'm including the symlink in the new tetex-bin package).
> 
> There are several things you can do.  Last week, new tetex 
> packages were released.  You can rerun setup.exe and your 
> problems may go away (if you need xdvi, see
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00045.html)

The new packages are the 2.0.2-1 ones, right? And tetex-bin-2.0.2-1
contains the symlink?


> If you cannot or do not want to update tetex:
> 
>   * Make sure that you have all dependencies installed:
> 
>        ash clear cygutils cygwin ed diffutils fileutils findutils gawk
>        grep jpeg libkpathsea3 libncurses6 libpng12 perl sed sh-utils
>        textutils termcap tiff zlib
> 
>     esp. packages from base, that were missing from the previous tetex
>     release, ie:
> 
>        clear diffutils fileutils findutils gawk sh-utils textutils

Hmmm... I seem to be missing 'clear', but the test installation is
missing that one too, and on that machine the installation works.


>   * If you're updating tetex from an earlier version, you may need to
>     uninstall and then reinstall cygutils
> 
>   * Reinstall tetex-base (or run 
> /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh[.done])

Looking at the script I can't seem to find where it creates the symlink.
Is this done via one of the texconfig calls?


>   * If the symlink is all you're missing, you can create it by hand:
> 
>         ln -s /usr/bin/tex.exe /usr/bin/latex.exe

Well, if all else fails, I will try that.  .-)


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