On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 15:47:45 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Dear Debianers, > > I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC > (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex > working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex > packages and installed texlive (initially including texlive-base, > texlive-bin, texlive-common and subsequently texlive-all). After this, > the system cannot find the ams.sty file for the American Mathematical > Society package (which should apparently be installed with > texlive-base -- this package is listed as installed at version > 2007-4). > > Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either. > > Any ideas what could be going wrong?
The command that you quote above has a typo ("amy.sty"). However, I don't think that that is really the problem: It seems that "ams.sty" was removed in texlive 2007-4. It is still present in texlive 2005.dfsg.3-1. The removal may have been due to licensing issues (restrictions on commercial re-distribution, which is DFSG-incompatible) and/or because the file is obsolete (it is no longer on CTAN either). My guess is that \usepackage{amsmath} or \usepackage{amssymb} (if you only need the AMS symbols) will work as a replacement. If you really need the original ams.sty then you can find it on the web and put it in your ~/texmf. On a related note: Searching through system directories is much faster if you use "locate": locate ams.sty locate -br '^ams.*\.sty' -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]