[XeTeX] Installing XeTeX on Slackware 10.2

[Martin Schröder]

2006/8/9, Joshua Grauman <jnfo at grauman.com>:
> 6) Upgrade xkeyval. You could do this by changing the TeX paths, but since
> I didn't want to mess with the paths, I just deleted everything in:
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval AND
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval

<cough>

Please do a "texdoc TETEXDOC" and read section 2. "texconfig faq" is
also recommended reading.

You should add your version of xkeyval to TEXMFLOCAL or TEXMFHOME, but
definitely _not_ mess with TEXMFDIST.

> 7) Comment out hyphenation patterns that don't work with XeTeX, ie
> Hungarian, Serbian, maybe another or two. Do this in
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.dat

You meant a "texconfig hyphen latex", right? :-)

Best
   Martin