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mike_r

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Stupid Question: Where Are The Tetex Binaries?
« on: October 23, 2006, 05:08:32 pm »
Hi,

I think I'm just being blind, but what ipk contains the binaries from the teTeX package? The texmf tree is in the 3.5.4 and 3.5.4.1 feeds and has all the usual support files, but I don't see any executables e.g. /usr/bin/tex. I'm using OZ/Opie 3.5.4.1 on a 3100. Pointers, please?

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Stupid Question: Where Are The Tetex Binaries?
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2006, 01:46:32 pm »
Yes, I had done that, but that only uncovers the texmf tree - stuff that goes into /usr/share/texmf on my desktop. Where is the stuff that goes into /usr/bin?

I had downloaded all the listed tetex ipks, expanded them using ar, unpacked each data.tar.gz, and dug through for anything that looks like a binary (234 MB of stuff). No luck. If I do something like "find . -name latex", all I get are the directory names in /usr/share/texmf/tex, .../doc, and the font directories.

So I must repeat my question: what ipk contains /usr/bin/tex, /usr/bin/latex, etc.?

Thanks, and sorry to be a pain, but I'm assuming someone is running tex successfully, otherwise it would make no sense to have only the very large texmf tree.

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Stupid Question: Where Are The Tetex Binaries?
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2006, 03:31:04 pm »
With Latex you get a tetex binary, not a latex binary (at least on my Linux version).
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2006, 01:18:06 pm »
No, that's not it either. I did a "find . -type f -perm /u+x" to find all executables within the OZ tetex ipks I had expanded, and there are no executables of any kind except for a few uninteresting scripts under ./share/texmf/doc and ./share/texmf/scripts.

I've been using teTeX on various linux boxes for 10 years since it was at version 0.3, so I generally know where the bodies are buried. I don't want to build it myself if I don't have to - I only have the native gcc available to me, and I don't have the knowledge or resources to get a crosscompiler running.

I can still only conclude that at least one ipk is missing from the feed, and that no one else has tried to use these ipks to install a running tex system. I very much hope to be proved wrong - what am I missing?

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