[texhax] Problem installing TeXLive 2005

Sridhar M.A. mas at mylug.org
Sun Jan 15 16:55:33 CET 2006


Hello,

I tried installing the TeXLive 2005 on to my Debian Sarge machine and
ran into some errors. The errors are mainly related to creation of
symbolic links in the bin/i386-linux directory. I am just pasting a
snippet of the same below:


Script started on Sun 15 Jan 2006 03:44:13 PM IST
oshadhi:/mnt# ./install-stl.sh
Welcome to TeX Live installation. (Sun Jan 15 15:44:20 IST 2006)

Initializing collections... Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
Done initializing collections.
Initializing system packages... done.
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.

<snipped>

Press key to toggle status of collection: C
a [X] Essential program v [ ] Mongolian documen N [X] Basic LaTeX packa
b [ ] Essential binarie w [ ] Polish documentat O [X] Experiment LaTeX3
c [X] Extra BibTeX styl x [ ] Portuguese docume P [X] LaTeX supplementa
d [ ] The bare TeXLive	y [ ] Russian documenta T [X] LaTeX recommended
e [X] TeX auxiliary pro z [ ] Spanish documenta U [X] Advanced math typ
f [X] Chemical typesett A [ ] Thai documentatio V [X] MetaPost (and Met
g [X] ConText macro pac B [ ] Ukrainian documen W [X] Music typesetting
h [X] Base documentatio C [ ] Vietnamese docume X [X] Omega
i [ ] Bulgarian documen D [X] TeX font-related	Y [X] pdfTeX
j [ ] Czechslovak docum E [X] Extra fonts	Z [ ] Perl for Windows
k [ ] Dutch documentati F [X] Recommended fonts 1 [X] Drawing and graph
l [X] English documenta G [X] Extra formats	2 [X] Plain TeX supplem
m [ ] Finnish documenta H [X] Games typesetting 3 [X] PSTricks packages
n [ ] French documentat I [X] Miscellaneous ext 4 [X] PostScript and Tr
o [ ] German documentat J [X] Miscellaneous gen 5 [X] Support for publi
p [ ] Greek documentati K [ ] Ghostscript for W 6 [X] GNU Texinfo
s [ ] Italian documenta L [X] Graphics tools	7 [X] TrueType font man
t [ ] Japanese document M [X] HTML/SGML/XML sup 8 [ ] Win32 support pro
u [ ] Korean documentat

Press key to toggle status of collection: r
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.

 ===================> TeX Live installation procedure <==================

===> Note: Letters/digits in <angle brackets> indicate menu items <===
===>       for commands or configurable options                   <===

    Proposed platform: Intel x86 with GNU/Linux
    <P> over-ride system detection and choose platform
    <B> binary systems:         1 out of 11
    <S> Installation scheme (scheme_full)
    [customizing installation scheme:
       <C> standard collections   <L> language collections]
    34 out of 84, disk space required: 767055 kB
    <D> directories:
      TEXDIR      (The main TeX directory)        : /usr/local/texlive/2005     
      TEXMFLOCAL  (Directory for local styles etc): /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
      TEXMFSYSVAR (Directory for local config)    : /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-var
    <O> options:
       [ ] alternate directory for generated fonts ()
       [ ] create symlinks in standard directories
       [ ] do not install macro/font doc tree
       [ ] do not install macro/font source tree
    <I> start installation
    <H> help,  <Q> quit


<snipped>

New value for TEXDIR [/usr/local/texlive/2005]: /home/software/texlive/2005
Current directories setup:
==============================================================================

  <1>  TEXDIR:       /home/software/texlive/2005
       support tree: /home/software/texlive/2005/texmf

  <2>  TEXMFLOCAL:   /home/software/texlive/2005/texmf-local

  <3>  TEXMFSYSVAR:  /home/software/texlive/2005/texmf-var

Other options:
==============================================================================
  <R>   return to main menu
  <Q>   quit

Enter command: r

 ===================> TeX Live installation procedure <==================

===> Note: Letters/digits in <angle brackets> indicate menu items <===
===>       for commands or configurable options                   <===

    Proposed platform: Intel x86 with GNU/Linux
    <P> over-ride system detection and choose platform
    <B> binary systems:         1 out of 11
    <S> Installation scheme (scheme_full)
    [customizing installation scheme:
       <C> standard collections   <L> language collections]
    34 out of 84, disk space required: 767055 kB
    <D> directories:
      TEXDIR      (The main TeX directory)        : /home/software/texlive/2005     
      TEXMFLOCAL  (Directory for local styles etc): /home/software/texlive/2005/texmf-local
      TEXMFSYSVAR (Directory for local config)    : /home/software/texlive/2005/texmf-var
    <O> options:
       [ ] alternate directory for generated fonts ()
       [ ] create symlinks in standard directories
       [ ] do not install macro/font doc tree
       [ ] do not install macro/font source tree
    <I> start installation
    <H> help,  <Q> quit

Enter command: i
Preparing destination directories... done preparing.
TeX Live can be used on multiple systems
as a separate subdirectory is used for each
installed binary package in /home/software/texlive/2005/bin.

Preparing list of files to be installed...
  Intel x86 with GNU/Linux

  Essential programs and files 
  Extra BibTeX styles 
  TeX auxiliary programs 
  Chemical typesetting 
  ConText macro package 
  Base documentation 
  English documentation 
  TeX font-related programs 
  Extra fonts 
  Recommended fonts 
  Extra formats 
  Games typesetting (chess, etc) 
  Miscellaneous extra generic macros 
  Miscellaneous generic macros 
  Graphics tools 
  HTML/SGML/XML support 
  Basic LaTeX packages 
  Experiment LaTeX3 packages 
  LaTeX supplementary packages 
  LaTeX recommended packages 
  Advanced math typesetting 
  MetaPost (and Metafont) drawing packages 
  Music typesetting 
  Omega 
  pdfTeX 
  Drawing and graphing packages 
  Plain TeX supplementary packages 
  PSTricks packages 
  PostScript and Truetype utilities 
  Support for publishers 
  GNU Texinfo 
  TrueType font manipulation 

  Indic 
  UK English 
Initializing texmf-var...

Unpacking zip files for packages...
.....................................................................................................warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/lamed) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfamstex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/amstex) failed
....warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/fdf2tan) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/fdf2tex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/makempy) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/mptopdf) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texfind) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texfont) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texshow) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texutil) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/ctangle.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/cweave.1) failed
........warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/dvilj2p.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/dvilj4.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/dvilj4l.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/dvilj6.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/dvilj6) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/dvigif) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/eplain) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/etex) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/getnonfreefonts-sys) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/jadetex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/pdfjadetex) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/kpsepath.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/kpsexpand.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/mktexfmt.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/kpsepath) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/kpsexpand) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/mktexfmt) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texhash) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/uniqleaf) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/latex) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/mf-nowin.1) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/mllatex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/mltex) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/lambda) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/odvicopy.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/odvips.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/odvitype.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/odvips) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/ofm2opl) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/opl2ofm) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/ovf2ovp) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/ovp2ovf) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfaleph) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfcont-en) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfcont-nl) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfetex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdflambda) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdflatex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfomega) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/pdflatex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/pdftex) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/pdfcrop) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/physe) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/phyzzx) failed
........warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/fmtutil-sys.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/updmap-sys.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/allec) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/texconfig-sys.1) failed
...warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texsis) failed
..warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/thumbpdf) failed
......warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/oxdvi.1) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/oxdvi) failed
.warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/pdfxmltex) failed
warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/xmltex) failed
....................................................................................................................................................warning:  symbolic link (texmf-dist/doc/latex/custom-bib/README) failed
...............................................................................................................................................warning:  symbolic link (texmf-dist/doc/latex/fncychap/README) failed
.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

I have installed on a couple of similar machines without any problem. I
do not know what could be wrong? Can someone give me some pointers on
this matter?

Regards,

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