[tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

[Suleman Shahid]

Dear Norbert,

Thanks a lot for your support.

I am Suleman Shahid, Assistant Professor in Computer Science (HCI) at Lahore University of Management Sciences. I am also a visiting Professor in TU Eindhoven.

As a part of a research project, we are trying to extend the Latex for people with special needs. Following your path, we would keep the extended code base and the project open source so that other community members could use it. We have research as well as development interests. After trying many different options, we decided to go ahead with texlive.

We need your support to run the codebase so that we could extend it as per our needs. We are ready to collaborate with you. I will be happy to chat with you to explain our project and to set the future goals.

Hope to have a fruitful collaboration.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Best,

Dr. Suleman Shahid
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Lahore University of Management Science
Lahore, Pakistan


On Apr 4, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Ahtsham Manzoor <15030043 at lums.edu.pk<mailto:15030043 at lums.edu.pk>> wrote:

Hi,

We have tried your mentioned instructions and also followed some of the previous conversations in email archives but unfortunately, still the error persists i.e.

"Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
mktexfmt: No such file or directory
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!".

Our main goal is to set texlive source in development form so that we can make use of it in order to achieve our purpose.

Your support would be highly appreciable.


Kind Regards:
Ahtsham

________________________________
From: Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at<mailto:preining at logic.at>>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:19:26 AM
To: Muhammad Umair Sair
Cc: Martin Schröder; Ahtsham Manzoor; tlbuild at tug.org<mailto:tlbuild at tug.org>; Muhammad Farhan
Subject: Re: [tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

Hi

>   1.  Install TexLive using 'apt-get install' command.
>   2.  Build TexLive using 'Build' script (https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/Build).
>   3.  Copy the binaries built in second step to the install location of first step.

No. That will NOT WORK!

First of all: Why do you not use the Debian binaries? What did
you actually call
        apt-get install texlive
or
        apt-get install texlive-full
?
Both of them will install all binaries.

Now why the above is wrong: The BUild script in the svn expects a directory
layout similar to what the TeX Live installer creates:
        ROOT/bin/ARCH/<binaries>
        ROOT/texmf-dist/...
but the Debian layout is different:
        /usr/bin/<binaries>
        /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/...
Thus simply compiling with Build and dropping the binaries into /usr/bin
*will*not*work.


Please explain what you are trying to achieve, and we can help you.

Norbert

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