<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <<a href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de">reinhard.kotucha@web.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 2014-04-04 at 17:38:29 -0400, John Kitzmiller wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 4, 2014, at 5:23 AM, - <<a href="mailto:wja.maaskant@quicknet.nl">wja.maaskant@quicknet.nl</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> I am trying to compose a lecture, by means of metapost<br> figures. I use a linux computer with UBUNTU, and composed a file<br> example.mp as is described in a paper of Andr'e Heck on<br> "Learning Metapost by doing" , NTG vol.32,2005. When as<br> prescribed, I typed 'mpost example' I got the message: sudo<br> apt-get install texlive - binaries. After some time Texlive was<br> loaded and again I typed 'mpost example'. Now I got the message:<br> Sorry, I can't find the 'mpost' preload file, will try<br> 'plain'. And then: I can't find the 'plain' preload file!<br><br>How should I proceed to use metapost? Thanks, when you can help me.<br><br>Wim Maaskant --<br><a href="http://tug.org/metapost/">http://tug.org/metapost/</a><br></blockquote><br><br>You may need to add texlive folder to your PATH?<br></blockquote><br> I wouldn't expect that you have to do anything after running<br><br> apt-get install texlive<br><br>If you get the error messages "Sorry, I can't find the 'mpost' preload<br>file, will try 'plain'." or "I can't find the 'plain' preload file!"<br>then mpost is already in PATH (the error messages obviously come from<br>mpost) and something else is wrong.<br><br>I'm clueless. Ubuntu is a descendant of Debian and I assume that it<br>inherited the Debian package management tools. I have two Raspberries<br>running Debian and everything works out-of-the-box like a charm.<br><br>It's probably necessary to investigate the fmtutil.cnf files in this<br>particular case.<br><br>Regards,<br> Reinhard<br><br>-- <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112<br>Marschnerstr. 25<br>D-30167 Hannover <a href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de">mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de</a><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Or you could go the ConTeXt route: <a href="http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone">http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone</a> which provides many options for metaposting.</div></body></html>