[tex-live] [texhax] ! LaTeX error: File 'rcs.sty' not found.

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/3/15 Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com>:
> Hi.
>
> Please, don't drop mailing list from your reply. It will be much faster
> and easier to track down you problem.
>
> ** John H Harris [2010-03-14 15:19:50 -0400]:
>
>> Hello Vladimir,
>
>> You wrote:
>
>>    This "Cannot open rcs.sty/ls-R to write" is strange. You should open
>>    command line (cmd) as administrator and run in it
>>    C:\> mktexlsr
>>    Here 'C:' is path, i.e. you should run with command from top level of
>>    C drive.
>
>> I use a Thompson Automation Bourne shell. I don't think pwd matters. I
>> tried it again from c:/ The output was the same:
> Sorry, I don't familiar with this tool, could you try usual cmd.exe?
>
It does not matter what shell is used, mktexlsr works the same way.

>>    mktexlsr: Updating C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf/ls-R...
>>    mktexlsr: Updated C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf/ls-R.
>>    Cannot open  C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-config/ls-R to write.
>>    mktexlsr: Updating C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist/ls-R...
>>    mktexlsr: Updated C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist/ls-R.
>>    mktexlsr: Updating
>> C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/context/manuals/reference/en/ls-R...
>>    mktexlsr: Updated
>> C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/context/manuals/reference/en/ls-R.
>>    mktexlsr: Updating C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-var/ls-R...
>>    mktexlsr: Updated C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-var/ls-R.
>>    Cannot open  C:/TeXLive/texmf-local/ls-R to write.
>>    mktexlsr: Done.
> And again, this is strange. Why 'texmf-dist/doc/context/manuals/...' has
> ls-R?
>
Yes, that's really strange...

> Check environment variables (Windows and your tool): run in cmd.exe and
> in your tool 'set' command.
>
> May be you don't have permission to write onto file
> C:/texlive/2009/texmf-config/ls-R?
>
It may or may not matter. If there is no change in the corresponding
tree may remain unchanged. The problems with write permissions can
arise if you install TL as a normal user and then invoke mktexlsr as
admin. The fastest solution is to delete all ls-R files from all TeX
tress as admin and then call mktexlsr as normal user. Be sure that the
directories themselves are writable.

>> and I still get the rcs.sty-not-found error from latex.exe.
> Always use
> prompt$ kpsewhich rcs.sty
> to check if there is such file (read: could be found by texlive).
> If file exists (on disk) that doesn't mean that texlive could find it.
> If you curious why that read tds and texlive manual.
>
>> I did the TeX Live installation, from the FIG installation DVD, default
>> installation, as I have done with previous TeX Live releases for the past
>> ten years or so.
>
>> You wrote:
>
>>    you could check TeX Live variables of your installation:
>
>> I have attached a file generated by a script that executes
>> "kpsewhich -var-value=" for the various variables you mentioned. I note
>> that the two paths TEXMFHOME="C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/texmf"
>> and "TEXMFVAR=C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/.texlive2009/texmf-var"
>> do not exist. TEXMFDBS looks like what I set in the global environment.
>
>> Seeing TeX Live using C:/Documents and Settings/ makes me nervous. I
>> have found it best to completely avoid using any unnecessary Microsoft
>> operating system directories or convenience features. A designer can not
>> rely on anything left in Microsoft's domain. If Windows is managing a
>> directory, one should expect that anything in it may be damaged by the
>> OS, another application, or a virus. I suspect either that, or that
>> there is something about my Windows configuration for which the TeX Live
>> developers did not test.
> You could redefine TEXMFHOME, in TEXMFMAIN/web2c/texmf.cnf.
>
>> TEXMF:
>>   {C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/.texlive2009/texmf-config,C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/.texlive2009/texmf-var,C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/texmf,!!C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-config,!!C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-var,!!C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf,!!C:/TeXLive/2009/../texmf-local,!!C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist}
>
>> TEXMFDIST:
>>   C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist
>
>> TEXMFMAIN:
>>   C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf
>
>> TEXMFLOCAL:
>>   C:/TeXLive/2009/../texmf-local
>
>> TEXMFSYSVAR:
>>   C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-var
>
>> TEXMFSYSCONFIG:
>>   C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-config
>
>> TEXMFHOME:
>>   C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/texmf
>
>> TEXMFVAR:
>>   C:/Documents and Settings/jhharris/.texlive2009/texmf-var
>
>> TEXMFDBS:
>>   C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf; C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-config;C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist;C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/context/manuals/reference/en;C:/TeXLive/2009/texmf-var; C:/TeXLive/texmf-local
>
> These variables look good (expect last one: why
> 'texmf-dist/doc/context/...' here?). Check your
> TEXMFMAIN/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
> Check if you have permissions to write to these directories.
> And run mktexlsr (or texhash) from cmd.exe.
>
> --
> A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
>                -- B. Franklin
>



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