On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> I'm new to Tex and Latex and would like to install it to learn
> more about it. However, after getting my machine configured, I
> tried to do an "ftp" install. This worked for the most part,
> except for a few packages that were in the Packages file but not
> on ftp.debian.org or ftp.caldera.com. What really bit the dust
> was texbin and latex. First, texbin choked on its postinstall
> script. I checked and it wasn't even doing anything! It gave an
> error 139. But when I ran it by hand, everything worked fine.
> So, I changed the post-inst to just echo "I did this by hand",
> and dpkg --configure texbin worked fine. I'm not sure this was a
> good idea though.
Hmmm... I ran into similar problems, although I didn't do an
ftp install. Installing all the latest packages that texbin depends
on solved the above problem for me. It looks like that worked for
you too.
> The next thing to install was latex. This started going fine,
> but quickly filled up my disk with the latex.log file. This was
> growing larger than 400mb! I had to CTL-C out of it. I wound up
> uninstalling latex and all related components (dselect kicks
> ass).
I ran into the same problem with the packages out of the stable area.
What solved the problem for me was *not* including the cfg hyphenation
rules during the installation and configuration of the texlib package.
Best regards,
Nick
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