On 12/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Norbert Preining</b> <<a href="mailto:preining@logic.at">preining@logic.at</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Neil, dear Jörg, dear all!<br><br>I have done another rebuild of the TeX live packages. Now all the<br>dependencies/conflicts with tetex are correct and let those packages<br>cooperate.</blockquote><div><br>Thanks again for all your hard work, Norbert. I admit that my personal inclination is to stick
<br>with the standard tex live distribution, but I get involved helping a couple small secretariats that use TeX for reports with authors spread across the globe, and find most authors prefer to <br>stick with software they can install via the distribution's package manager, so I'm sure your
<br>efforts will make life easier for lots of people.<br><br>aptitude picked up the new versions, but I had a small problem with "apt-get install texlive-plain-extra":<br><br>Setting up texlive-plain-extra (2005-1) ...
<br>Running mktexlsr. This may take some time. ... done.<br>Building format(s) --byfmt eplain. This may take some time. ...<br>fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in<br>/tmp/texlive.fmtutil.XX52cYKc<br>Please include this file if you report a bug.
<br><br>dpkg: error processing texlive-plain-extra (--configure):<br>
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1<br>
<br> ---<br># cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.XX52cYKc<br>fmtutil: format `eplain' not available.<br> ---<br><br>The texmf/tex/eplain directory was missing.<br><br>Copying the texmf-dist/tex/eplain directory from an original TeX Live 2005 tree to my
<br>/usr/local/share/texmf tree was sufficient to get past the problem. I haven't<br>installed all the packages due to space/time constraints, so maybe texmf/tex/eplain<br>comes in a different package.<br><br></div></div>
-- <br>George N. White III <<a href="mailto:aa056@chebucto.ns.ca">aa056@chebucto.ns.ca</a>><br>Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia