[tex-live] tex-live Digest, Vol 129, Issue 11

Marcelo B Barboza marcelobbarboza at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 13:39:09 CEST 2013


Good Morning,

don't you think that the 'update-alternatives voodoo' would fix the problem?

Marcelo.
On 10/17/2013 07:00 AM, tex-live-request at tug.org wrote:
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>     1. Re: Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>        (Urs Liska)
>     2. Re: Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>        (Lars Madsen)
>     3. Re: Installing dblatex together with manually installed	TL
>        (Zdenek Wagner)
>     4. Re: Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>        (Lars Madsen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:31:44 +0200
> From: Urs Liska <ul at openlilylib.org>
> To: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
> Cc: TeXLive mailing list <texlive at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually
> 	installed TL
> Message-ID: <525FAE80.6080201 at openlilylib.org>
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> Am 17.10.2013 11:23, schrieb Lars Madsen:
>> If you added the TL13 to the system PATH correctly (i.e. not through say bashrc) then you should be fine with having more than one LaTeX installed.
> I know this will be possible, but I first want to try to get away
> without because I dislike accepting a 200+MB installation I don't need ...
>
>> How ever you may want to build and install an equivs package instead.
>>
>> That will tell the package manager that packages corresponting to texlive.* have been installed.
>>
>> See http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
>>
>> I think someone on tex.stackexachange.com has already build the pseudo package for ubuntu, it might also work for debian.
>>
>> But I usually just follow the instuctions at the bottom of the TUG page above, step by step, that works just fine.
>>
>> Where exactly did you add the TL13 path?
> It's at the end of ~/.profile
>
>>
>>
>> /Lars Madsen
>> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
>> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
>> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: tex-live [tex-live-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Urs Liska [ul at openlilylib.org]
>> Sent: 17 October 2013 11:05
>> To: TeXLive mailing list
>> Subject: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>>
>> I'm on Debian Wheezy and have manually installed TeXLive 2013 from its
>> website (i.e. not through apt-get)
>>
>> For a third-party script I'm told to install dblatex.
>> 'sudo apt-get install dblatex' insists of installing loads of
>> texlive-... packages, which I don't want to do.
>> When I download dblatex and run its setup.py script it dies with 'Error:
>> not found: latex, makeindex, pdflatex, kpsewhich'
>>
>> 'whereis latex (etc.)' doesn't find anything while
>> 'which latex (etc.)' finds the correct locations of the manual installation.
>>
>> Questions:
>> a) is there a way to tell dblatex that I _do_ have TeXLive installed?
>> b) can I safely (apart from wasted bandwith and storage) install the
>> suggested texlive- packages with apt-get without disturbing my manual
>> installation? Would I perhaps change the PATH afterwards?
>>
>> Thanks for any info
>> Urs
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:44:34 +0000
> From: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
> To: Urs Liska <ul at openlilylib.org>
> Cc: TeXLive mailing list <texlive at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually
> 	installed TL
> Message-ID:
> 	<89ECE88578D8F648A22E307DAEE885793ABD074D at SRVUNIMBX07.uni.au.dk>
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> ~/.profile is of course not read when you are running something as root such as installing stuff.
>
> On Ubuntu I usually place the TL13 path at the start of the PATH setting found i /etc/environment (remember to make a backup)
>
> Remember to log out and in againg for the change to take effect.
>
> Though, I actually do not know if the PATH in /etc/environment is read by root.
>
>
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Urs Liska [ul at openlilylib.org]
> Sent: 17 October 2013 11:31
> To: Lars Madsen
> Cc: TeXLive mailing list
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>
> Am 17.10.2013 11:23, schrieb Lars Madsen:
>> If you added the TL13 to the system PATH correctly (i.e. not through say bashrc) then you should be fine with having more than one LaTeX installed.
> I know this will be possible, but I first want to try to get away
> without because I dislike accepting a 200+MB installation I don't need ...
>
>> How ever you may want to build and install an equivs package instead.
>>
>> That will tell the package manager that packages corresponting to texlive.* have been installed.
>>
>> See http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
>>
>> I think someone on tex.stackexachange.com has already build the pseudo package for ubuntu, it might also work for debian.
>>
>> But I usually just follow the instuctions at the bottom of the TUG page above, step by step, that works just fine.
>>
>> Where exactly did you add the TL13 path?
> It's at the end of ~/.profile
>
>>
>>
>> /Lars Madsen
>> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
>> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
>> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: tex-live [tex-live-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Urs Liska [ul at openlilylib.org]
>> Sent: 17 October 2013 11:05
>> To: TeXLive mailing list
>> Subject: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>>
>> I'm on Debian Wheezy and have manually installed TeXLive 2013 from its
>> website (i.e. not through apt-get)
>>
>> For a third-party script I'm told to install dblatex.
>> 'sudo apt-get install dblatex' insists of installing loads of
>> texlive-... packages, which I don't want to do.
>> When I download dblatex and run its setup.py script it dies with 'Error:
>> not found: latex, makeindex, pdflatex, kpsewhich'
>>
>> 'whereis latex (etc.)' doesn't find anything while
>> 'which latex (etc.)' finds the correct locations of the manual installation.
>>
>> Questions:
>> a) is there a way to tell dblatex that I _do_ have TeXLive installed?
>> b) can I safely (apart from wasted bandwith and storage) install the
>> suggested texlive- packages with apt-get without disturbing my manual
>> installation? Would I perhaps change the PATH afterwards?
>>
>> Thanks for any info
>> Urs
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:50:51 +0200
> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> To: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
> Cc: TeXLive mailing list <texlive at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually
> 	installed	TL
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-2"
>
> 2013/10/17 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
>> ~/.profile is of course not read when you are running something as root such as installing stuff.
>>
>> On Ubuntu I usually place the TL13 path at the start of the PATH setting found i /etc/environment (remember to make a backup)
>>
>> Remember to log out and in againg for the change to take effect.
>>
>> Though, I actually do not know if the PATH in /etc/environment is read by root.
>>
> No, setting PATH is not enough, it only allows to run the executables
> but it does not inform apt-get that TeX Live is installed. It will
> still install a lot of deb packages due to dependencies. Setting PATH
> is one thing, making a dummy package in order to make apt-get happy
> another.
>>
>> /Lars Madsen
>> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
>> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
>> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Urs Liska [ul at openlilylib.org]
>> Sent: 17 October 2013 11:31
>> To: Lars Madsen
>> Cc: TeXLive mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>>
>> Am 17.10.2013 11:23, schrieb Lars Madsen:
>>> If you added the TL13 to the system PATH correctly (i.e. not through say bashrc) then you should be fine with having more than one LaTeX installed.
>> I know this will be possible, but I first want to try to get away
>> without because I dislike accepting a 200+MB installation I don't need ...
>>
>>> How ever you may want to build and install an equivs package instead.
>>>
>>> That will tell the package manager that packages corresponting to texlive.* have been installed.
>>>
>>> See http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
>>>
>>> I think someone on tex.stackexachange.com has already build the pseudo package for ubuntu, it might also work for debian.
>>>
>>> But I usually just follow the instuctions at the bottom of the TUG page above, step by step, that works just fine.
>>>
>>> Where exactly did you add the TL13 path?
>> It's at the end of ~/.profile
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> /Lars Madsen
>>> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
>>> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
>>> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: tex-live [tex-live-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Urs Liska [ul at openlilylib.org]
>>> Sent: 17 October 2013 11:05
>>> To: TeXLive mailing list
>>> Subject: [tex-live] Installing dblatex together with manually installed TL
>>>
>>> I'm on Debian Wheezy and have manually installed TeXLive 2013 from its
>>> website (i.e. not through apt-get)
>>>
>>> For a third-party script I'm told to install dblatex.
>>> 'sudo apt-get install dblatex' insists of installing loads of
>>> texlive-... packages, which I don't want to do.
>>> When I download dblatex and run its setup.py script it dies with 'Error:
>>> not found: latex, makeindex, pdflatex, kpsewhich'
>>>
>>> 'whereis latex (etc.)' doesn't find anything while
>>> 'which latex (etc.)' finds the correct locations of the manual installation.
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>> a) is there a way to tell dblatex that I _do_ have TeXLive installed?
>>> b) can I safely (apart from wasted bandwith and storage) install the
>>> suggested texlive- packages with apt-get without disturbing my manual
>>> installation? Would I perhaps change the PATH afterwards?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any info
>>> Urs
>>
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