Apps :: TeX

I just made a HD inslallation of DSL. I only need it for TeX and internet and have problems to install teTeX.

If someone did it please hepl me.

Acording to tetex page, I have to install

gcc, GNU make, flex, bison,

I installed gcc1.dsl, which provides gcc and make

I have no idea where to find flex bison for DSL

Thank you

I tryed:

1.

Apps >> Tools >> Enable Apt

as in
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Enabling_Apt

then do

dsl@box:~$ sudo su
root@box:/home/dsl# apt-get install tetex-bin

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It installed tex, but it is not usable, it give a lot of error-messeges for correct tex-files

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2.

install gcc1.dsl

Apps >> Tools >> Enable Apt

#apt-get install flex
#apt-get install bison

then tried to configure and install tetex from sourse, it cofigure, but give an error message while installing.

tosha,

if you can go live (or are prepared to redo your HD install) then you might want to try the dsl at
http://nuclear.ph.man.ac.uk/~pc/dsl.html

it should work but its not perfect (pdflatex doesn't work for example). So give it a try and
if its good (enough) go for your HD install.

Cheers.

Thank you very much for your help,

the result is the same as for

apt-get install tetex-bin

it is not usable for most of tex-files (however, examples which attched in lat.dsl do work).

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The following WORKS:

I compiled tetex on an other machine (suse9.2), and copy all directory /usr/local/teTeX (it is 250MB, but one can delite some subdirectores, as eTeX/share/texmf/doc, which is ~100MB).

After that everything works fine, latex, pdflatex,tex,pdftex (at least it works after you install one of "lat.dsl" or "apt-get install tetex-bin", but maybe it works independently)

the only problem which I have is xdvi which can be taken from the above package (lat.dsl) or by "apt-get install tetex-bin".

That what I get for ldd:

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dsl@box:~/latex$ ldd /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/xdvi-xaw.bin
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/xdvi-xaw.bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/xdvi-xaw.bin)
libXaw.so.8 => not found
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40019000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4002d000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40077000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4007f000)
libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x40095000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x413c4000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x41306000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4009c000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400aa000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400cc000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401fb000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
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An other way would be to use only pdf(la)tex together with xpdf.
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it is clearly a stupid way to solve problem but it works!

original here.