On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote: > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been > > a question during installation about pdflatex but I'm not sure if I > > remember correctly. If so I guess I can remove --purge and re-install > > but I was presuming there was another/better way? > > > > Thanks, M > Hi M, > I have been not really following the total discussion, but I have an > observation: sometimes there are programs that can be called more than > one way and that the way they are called affect how they works. > E.g. grep is a program and egrep is a shell script that calls grep with > specific options. > > Maybe $TEX_PROGRAM_1 and $TEX_PROGRAM_2 are just calling > $ACTUAL_TEX_PROGRAM with different options? > > as for reconfiguring a package: > dpkg-reconfigure -plow $PKGNAME > will reconfigure a package with the most questions asked > dpkg-reconfigure -phigh $PKGNAME > will reconfigure a package with the least questions asked >
ah, that's useful! care to remind me how to determine which package something came in? eg for the command 'latex'? or is it not that simple? ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
