* Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
@ 2011-05-26 18:34 Lee Rothstein
2011-05-26 19:17 ` Ryan Johnson
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From: Lee Rothstein @ 2011-05-26 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cygwin, eMail List
I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
even been able to install it successfully.
I admit it, I'm a dolt.
Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?
I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.
Here's some feedback from my last "install attempts":
--
Reinstalled, all of Tex:
* Publishing group, which includes: ec-fonts-mftraced
* Text group, which includes Jadetex
--
Popup window of setup:
Package: ec-fonts-mftraced
postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh exit code 1
Package: Unknown package
exim.sh exit code 1
mined.sh exit code 1
--
isn't 'postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh' misnamed?
--
The following packages have been diagnosed by
'cygcheck -c' as having problems:
Missing file: /etc/postinstall/postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh from
package ec-fonts-mftraced
ec-fonts-mftraced 1.0.8-4 Incomplete
Missing file: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/jadetex.fmt from package jadetex
Missing file: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.fmt from package jadetex
jadetex 3.13-1 Incomplete
Missing file: /etc/Muttrc.setupnew from package mutt
Missing file: /etc/mime.types.setupnew from package mutt
mutt 1.5.20-1 Incomplete
Missing file: /usr/bin/latex.exe from package tetex-bin
tetex-bin 3.0.0-3 Incomplete
Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
--
I did notice in latex.log that it references a file:
"latex.aux". Is the file name extension a problem?
Lee
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 18:34 Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work? Lee Rothstein
@ 2011-05-26 19:17 ` Ryan Johnson
2011-05-26 19:21 ` Ken Brown
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From: Ryan Johnson @ 2011-05-26 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
> I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
> even been able to install it successfully.
>
> I admit it, I'm a dolt.
>
> Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?
>
> I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.
As it happens, I'm running tetex as we speak. It's never been a problem
for me, except the time I had MikTex in my cygwin path and the two
fought. I don't know anything about ec-fonts or jadetex, though. Here
are the cygwin packages I have installed:
tetex 3.0.0-3
tetex-base 3.0.0-3
tetex-bin 3.0.0-3
tetex-extra 3.0.0-3
tetex-tiny 3.0.0-3
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
You didn't say what OS or version of cygwin you're running, but assuming
it's 1.7 you might try a fresh install to, say, c:\cygwin-tex, which
includes only the base packages and tetex. It won't harm your existing
install in any way, and you should be able to use the saved packages
from previous downloads rather than having to download again.
If that works you probably have a corrupted cygwin installation (which
would make sense given all the strange errors you mention); if it
doesn't work then something really weird is going on.
Ryan
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* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 19:17 ` Ryan Johnson
@ 2011-05-26 19:21 ` Ken Brown
2011-05-26 20:33 ` Dima Pasechnik
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From: Ken Brown @ 2011-05-26 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>> I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
>> even been able to install it successfully.
>>
>> I admit it, I'm a dolt.
>>
>> Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?
>>
>> I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.
> As it happens, I'm running tetex as we speak. It's never been a problem
> for me, except the time I had MikTex in my cygwin path and the two
> fought. I don't know anything about ec-fonts or jadetex, though. Here
> are the cygwin packages I have installed:
>
> tetex 3.0.0-3
> tetex-base 3.0.0-3
> tetex-bin 3.0.0-3
> tetex-extra 3.0.0-3
> tetex-tiny 3.0.0-3
>
>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> You didn't say what OS or version of cygwin you're running, but assuming
> it's 1.7 you might try a fresh install to, say, c:\cygwin-tex, which
> includes only the base packages and tetex. It won't harm your existing
> install in any way, and you should be able to use the saved packages
> from previous downloads rather than having to download again.
>
> If that works you probably have a corrupted cygwin installation (which
> would make sense given all the strange errors you mention); if it
> doesn't work then something really weird is going on.
Another alternative if the OP wants a modern TeX system is TeX Live
(http://www.tug.org/texlive/). It supports Cygwin OOTB.
Ken
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* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 19:21 ` Ken Brown
@ 2011-05-26 20:33 ` Dima Pasechnik
2011-05-26 20:48 ` marco atzeri
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From: Dima Pasechnik @ 2011-05-26 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
tetex is dead and buried.
Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says:
-----------------------------------------------
De-support notice
I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
more (May 2006).
-----------------------------------------------
In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex.
Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live.
On 26 May 2011 21:20, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>>>
>>> I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
>>> even been able to install it successfully.
>>>
>>> I admit it, I'm a dolt.
>>>
>>> Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?
>>>
>>> I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.
>>
>> As it happens, I'm running tetex as we speak. It's never been a problem
>> for me, except the time I had MikTex in my cygwin path and the two
>> fought. I don't know anything about ec-fonts or jadetex, though. Here
>> are the cygwin packages I have installed:
>>
>> tetex 3.0.0-3
>> tetex-base 3.0.0-3
>> tetex-bin 3.0.0-3
>> tetex-extra 3.0.0-3
>> tetex-tiny 3.0.0-3
>>
>>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>> You didn't say what OS or version of cygwin you're running, but assuming
>> it's 1.7 you might try a fresh install to, say, c:\cygwin-tex, which
>> includes only the base packages and tetex. It won't harm your existing
>> install in any way, and you should be able to use the saved packages
>> from previous downloads rather than having to download again.
>>
>> If that works you probably have a corrupted cygwin installation (which
>> would make sense given all the strange errors you mention); if it
>> doesn't work then something really weird is going on.
>
> Another alternative if the OP wants a modern TeX system is TeX Live
> (http://www.tug.org/texlive/). It supports Cygwin OOTB.
>
> Ken
>
Dmitrii
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* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 20:33 ` Dima Pasechnik
@ 2011-05-26 20:48 ` marco atzeri
2011-05-26 22:39 ` Charles Wilson
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From: marco atzeri @ 2011-05-26 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> tetex is dead and buried.
> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says:
> -----------------------------------------------
> De-support notice
>
> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
> more (May 2006).
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex.
>
> Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live.
feel free to volunteer for packing it.
Marco
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* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 20:48 ` marco atzeri
@ 2011-05-26 22:39 ` Charles Wilson
2011-05-27 1:13 ` Eliot Moss
2011-05-27 6:52 ` marco atzeri
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From: Charles Wilson @ 2011-05-26 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>> tetex is dead and buried.
>> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says:
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> De-support notice
>>
>> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
>> more (May 2006).
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex.
>>
>> Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live.
>
> feel free to volunteer for packing it.
Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX
maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is to ask Jan to
update/switch cygwin's TeX system to TeX Live, and make the case for why
it should happen.
I think "teTeX has been dead upstream for five years" is a pretty good
argument, actually.
'Course, we haven't heard from Jan since last Novemeber
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00422.html
so...
Jan? You still there?
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* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 22:39 ` Charles Wilson
@ 2011-05-27 1:13 ` Eliot Moss
2011-05-27 5:47 ` Charles Wilson
2011-05-27 6:52 ` marco atzeri
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From: Eliot Moss @ 2011-05-27 1:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 5/26/2011 6:39 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>> tetex is dead and buried.
> Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX
> maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is to ask Jan to
> update/switch cygwin's TeX system to TeX Live, and make the case for why
> it should happen.
>
> I think "teTeX has been dead upstream for five years" is a pretty good
> argument, actually.
>
> 'Course, we haven't heard from Jan since last Novemeber
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00422.html
> so...
>
> Jan? You still there?
I observe that I installed and use MiKTeX, which is a native
Windows TeX/LaTeX, but I call it fine from cygwin scripts and
such without difficulty. It was a seamless cutover. (I did it
to have a version more similar to that of some colleagues,
with whom I am working on a book.) So ... I am not sure that
there is any great benefit to a cygwin-specific version.
Best wishes -- Eliot Moss
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* Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
2011-05-26 22:39 ` Charles Wilson
2011-05-27 1:13 ` Eliot Moss
@ 2011-05-27 6:52 ` marco atzeri
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From: marco atzeri @ 2011-05-27 6:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Charles Wilson, cygwin
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>> tetex is dead and buried.
>>> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says:
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> De-support notice
>>>
>>> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
>>> more (May 2006).
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live.
>>
>> feel free to volunteer for packing it.
>
> Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX
> maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is to ask Jan to
> update/switch cygwin's TeX system to TeX Live, and make the case for why
> it should happen.
Tex Live will be another package, so it could have another maintainer.
No one will complain about additional volunteers.
;-)
TexLive has a peculiar installation, so making a cygwin package is not
a trivial task.
>
> I think "teTeX has been dead upstream for five years" is a pretty good
> argument, actually.
using a typical CGF's answer:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
>
> 'Course, we haven't heard from Jan since last Novemeber
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00422.html
> so...
>
> Jan? You still there?
following gmane, he seems busy with lilypond and mingw
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