[fptex] News

[Richard Stanton]

One thing: Some of the packages are in the supplements subdirectory, which
is NOT downloaded even when you type "getfptex full". Could that be causing
(some of) the problems?

Richard Stanton
Associate Professor of Finance
Haas School of Business
U.C. Berkeley
545 Student Services Building #1900
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900

tel. (510) 642-7382
fax. (510) 643-1420
email: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://haas.berkeley.edu/~stanton



> -----Original Message-----
> From: fptex-admin@tug.org [mailto:fptex-admin@tug.org]On Behalf Of
> Richard Stanton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:49 AM
> To: fptex@tug.org
> Subject: RE: [fptex] News
>
>
> Hi Fabrice.
>
> I downloaded in a new directory using "getfptex full", which should have
> downloaded the latest TeXsetup, as well as all the files (by the
> way, a very
> minor thing - should the label be ":end", rather than "end:"? I get a
> complaint about an unknown command or something).
>
> Then I ran "TeXsetup" (no options), and asked to install, from the
> supplements section:
>
> imagick
> latex2html
> netpbm
> pfe
> psutils
>
> Here, from the log file:
>
> Selected Packages:
> Collection supplement (supplement):
> 	supplement, french not selected
> 	supplement, gs5.50 not selected
> 	supplement, gs6.0 not selected
> 	supplement, imagick, 6245577 bytes
> 	supplement, latex2html, 48205417 bytes
> 	supplement, netpbm, 4577584 bytes
> 	supplement, ntemacs not selected
> 	supplement, perl not selected
> 	supplement, pfe, 1228721 bytes
> 	supplement, psutils, 201867 bytes
> 	supplement, texshell not selected
> 	supplement, winedt not selected
> 	supplement, winshell not selected
> 	supplement, xemacs not selected
>
> 1) No imagick. Here is an extract from later in the log file:
>
> !!!No net access allowed, cannot grab
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/supplementary/ImageMagick-5.2.0-win32
.zip from
> the Internet!!!
>
> Note: I do not seem to have any files called image... in the download.
>
> 2) No latex2html (at least, no separate directory with executables).
>
> 3) pfe and netpbm WERE installed
>
> 4) psutils was not installed. Here's the entry from the log file:
>
> unzip
> C:\scratch\fptexnew\C:\scratch\fptexnew\setupw32\psutils.zip -d c:\TeX
> UnZip DLL:  cannot find either
> C:\scratch\fptexnew\C:\scratch\fptexnew\setupw32\psutils.zip or
> C:\scratch\fptexnew\C:\scratch\fptexnew\setupw32\psutils.zip.zip.
>
> That's about it...
>
> Richard Stanton
> Associate Professor of Finance
> Haas School of Business
> U.C. Berkeley
> 545 Student Services Building #1900
> Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
>
> tel. (510) 642-7382
> fax. (510) 643-1420
> email: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu
> Web: http://haas.berkeley.edu/~stanton
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fptex-admin@tug.org [mailto:fptex-admin@tug.org]On Behalf Of
> > Fabrice Popineau
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:37 AM
> > To: Richard Stanton
> > Cc: fptex@tug.org
> > Subject: Re: [fptex] News
> >
> >
> > * Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> writes:
> >
> > > I'm still a little confused about using TeXSetup...  I downloaded
> > > the full package using getfptex. I ran the program with no command
> > > line options, selected "Custom", then selected what I wanted. In
> > > particular, I selected lots of the extra packages such as psutils,
> > > Imagick, netpbm etc. Some of these were installed and some weren't,
> > > and I can't quite understand why, since at first glance they all
> > > seem to be on my hard drive.  What am I missing? It would be great
> > > to be able to do the entire installation in one go, rather than
> > > having to go back and install lots of separate packages.
> >
> > Which ones were not installed ? Which version of TeXSetup did you
> > use ? The 1.0.6 one should allow you to install the previously
> > remotely available
> > packages without network connection. You need to reproduce the
> > directory structure found on the ftp server, use 'getfptex full' to
> > retrieve everything (huge).
> >
> > Fabrice
> >
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