<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px;margin-top:0px">Today trying out some installation of the l2h code in the repository I met a rather unusual problem. I was wondering if anyone has experienced this. If you try to install latex2html from the sources at GitHub, with the sequence</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">  ./configure
  make
  make install
</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px">and you do NOT have a local (personal) texmf tree -- the installation proceeds fine, and places a bunch of files from <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-radius:3px">latex2htmlmaster/texinputs/</code> into </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-radius:3px">/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html</code>.</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">Note: trying to install LaTeX2HTML style files in TeX directory tree
     (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html)
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/htmllist.sty
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/html.sty
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/techexplHTML.tex
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/url.sty

</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px">some of them extremely old (20 years old), but the problem never appears because the new files on</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-radius:3px">/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/</code></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px">take precedence and most stuff continues to work fine.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px">On the other hand though if you HAVE a personal TeXMF tree, then the install script places the files in there:</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">Note: trying to install LaTeX2HTML style files in TeX directory tree
     (/home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html)
Info: Installed /home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html/frames.sty
Info: Installed /home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html/verbatimfiles.sty
Info: Installed /home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty

</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px">and these take precedence over the system files (with kpsewhich) and because of the old files a LOT of things break down with the TeX installation, including biblatex -- because of the old "url.sty".</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px">Three files are problematic because they share name space with files in the TeXLive distribution.</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border-radius:3px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">                Repo       TeXLive 2016
floatflt.ins  1998/06/05    2008/03/17
url.sty       1999/03/02    2013/09/16
latin9.def    1999          2016

</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px">Paulo Ney</p></div>