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<font face="sans-serif"> I tried several times to install xetex
under Xubuntu (running on a iMac but on a separate partition).<br>
1) Downloading texlive-xetex needs, from a CTAN mirror, > 2400
files, including facilities for arab, persian, cyrillic, japanese,
ouigour etc. etc.<br>
Now I use French and English, and need nothing else.<br>
The installation also downloads latex, context, zozotex etc. I do
not need those, and use only Plain XeTeX, with much better results
than my colleagues who use LaTeX.<br>
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2) Therefore, I removed everything and tried Synaptic. That was
better: only six-seven packages (including the doc, in French and
English). But the dependencies were not managed suitably, and I
got the messages (sorry, I am french)<br>
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E: texlive-binaries: le sous-processus script post-installation
installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 127
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-doc-base: le sous-processus script post-installation
installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-base: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-doc-fr: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-latex-base: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non
configuré</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-latex-base-doc: le sous-processus script post-installation
installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-luatex: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">E:
texlive-xetex: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré<!--EndFragment--></p>
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The dependence tree can be seen nowhere, even though I was told by
synaptic that the download order was important. By the way, even
there, latex and luatex were apparently needed (?)<br>
Anyhow, nothing could run, using TeXworks (on the contrary,
everything runs properly on the Mac system).<br>
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TeX is nice, and XeTeX even more so, for the easy use of any font;
but there should exist a minimal package for people needing only
XeTeX and their own language (plus English, say).<br>
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Jean-Claude Raoult<br>
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Why make it simple, when one can make it complicated ? (english
proverb)<br>
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