Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: : > > OK, multi-part question. : > > : > > 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: : > > : > > Errors were encountered while processing: : > > tetex-base : > > tetex-nonfree : > > tetex-bin : > > tetex-extra : > > : > > ??? : > First install tet

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: You need to configure tetex-bin and tetex-base at the same time - dpkg --configure tetex-bin tetex-base > 2.) What the heck *is* TeX anyway, and are there applications that > call/use it regularly? Because I have never invoked it for any purpose

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Cesar Talon
On 20-May-98 Matt Thompson wrote: >> First install tetex-base (you should install dpkg-perl before) and after >> that install the rest of the files. So, you have to install tetex >> packages in a 2 (or 3) step process: (dpkg-perl,) tetex-base and finally >> the rest of the tetex .deb files. > >

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: > > For LaTeX you need TeX. > > ...and so what's LaTeX? > > Matt TeX is a very powerful text processing system that produces beautifully formatted parers (books, letters etc). It can handle mathematics very well, and a lot of books are written that way.

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Matt Thompson
> > OK, multi-part question. > > > > 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: > > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > tetex-base > > tetex-nonfree > > tetex-bin > > tetex-extra > > > > ??? > First install tetex-base (you should install dpkg-perl before) and after > that inst

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Matt Thompson wrote: > > OK, multi-part question. > > 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: > > running dpkg --pending --configure ... > Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... > /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in > texmf.cnf. > dpkg: error processing tetex-bas

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread AJT60
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: > OK, multi-part question. > > 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: > > > ??? Looks like it didn't work. I have no idea > 2.) What the heck *is* TeX anyway, and are there applications that > call/use it regularly? Because I have never invoke

TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Matt Thompson
OK, multi-part question. 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in texmf.cnf. dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure): subprocess post-installa