Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-06 Thread Paul Seelig
On 6 Jan 1997, James LewisMoss wrote: > I'm not in any way involved with NTeX development, but I have installed > it on SGIs, Ultrix, and DecUnix machines (as well as Linux) and while > the earlier NTeX distribs were fairly difficult, the latest comes with > precompiled binaries for many different

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-06 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > I thought the ``provides'' field should contain ONLY the ``agreed'' > (discussed in debian-devel) virtual package names. Does dpkg work if > the virtual package names are not official? > Obviously it does here without problems. Sorry, i don't know of thi

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-06 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
> "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> --cut-here--- Paul> You just have to append the following lines to Paul> "/var/lib/dpkg/status": I thought the ``provides'' field should contain ONLY the ``agreed'' (discussed in

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you > should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about If it is just a week or two I'll rather wait. I like what I hear :) Someone actually told me that I should install

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > Then I guess I should be installing teTeX as well. I need to do some > TeX'ing but the standard Debian TeX package always seems to come up with > a new problem once I fixed one. > Then you'll be really happy with teTeX! Today i had a notice by Thomas Es

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is that it is complete with all > bells and whistles described in the LaTeX Book and the LaTeX Companion > and that it is an implementation which adheres to the TDS (TeX Directory Then I guess I should be installing

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > I tried searching around for teTeX whis morning, and I found a lot of > FTP-sites carrying the files, I also found the maintainer's address and > the mailing-list. BUT do you know if there is a teTeX web-page somewhere, > where some general information, m

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Given my current frustration in > dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX > stuff that is presently on this machine (standard Debian 1.2 packages), > I want to try out TeTeX. > Very good idea! The advantage of teTex