[Tugindia] trouble with latex installation?

David Kastrup David.Kastrup at t-online.de
Tue May 20 16:16:38 CEST 2003


"Baburaj A. Puthenveettil" <apbabu at mecheng.iisc.ernet.in> writes:

> 	I have a basic latex file test.tex
> 
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> ljkkjglkjdf
> \end{document}
> 
> on compiling 
> 
> latex test.tex
> 
> I get the following message
> 
> /home/pkg/pub/latex/sun/bin/latex: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
> 
> Why is this? Is my latex installation faulty?

Yes.  I would suspect that /home/pkg/pub/latex/sun/bin/latex is a
broken shell script or corrupted binary (or for the wrong
CPU/operating system) on your system.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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