TeX

Forum: Apps
Topic: TeX
started by: tosha

Posted by tosha on Nov. 15 2005,04:44

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

Posted by tosha on Nov. 16 2005,03:47

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.

Posted by nucpc on Nov. 17 2005,16:28

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.

Posted by tosha on Nov. 19 2005,20:45

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:

======================
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!