--- On Tue, 3/27/12, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 4:23 PM > @all who have tried to install kerTeX > and have failed, what is needed? > > 1) make sure that "Development Tools" is installed, if it is > not then, as root user > # yum groupinstall "Development Tools" > > 2) install flex-static, flex and bison are installed but > libl.a, or libfl.a are not in /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib64 and > are not found, ./get_mk_install.sh will fail with report > that it is missing: > > for 32 bit fedora > ========================================= > rkconfig: Checking LEXLIB: not found! > rkconfig: There were 1 libes not found! Stop! > rkconfig: > rkconfig: LEXLIB is missing: > rkconfig: > LEXLIB > The library provided by the > LEX program, `libl' or `libfl' if `flex' > is installed and the symlink > libl.a has not been made to libfl.a > > ========================================= > > for 64 bit fedora > ========================================= > rkconfig: Checking LEXLIB: not found! > rkconfig: There were 1 libes not found! Stop! > rkconfig: > rkconfig: LEXLIB is missing: > rkconfig: > LEXLIB > The library provided by the > LEX program, `libl' or `libfl' if `flex' > is installed and the symlink > libl.a has not been made to libfl.a > ========================================= > # yum install flex-static > > solves this problem so make sure it is installed before you > run the script. > > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/get_mk_install.sh > > The script runs as regular user, there is no need to run it > as root. > > $ chmod +x get_mk_install.sh > > then you may download the rest of the packages available > > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/amstex.sh > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/latex.sh > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/graphics@xxxxxxxx > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/babel@xxxxxxxx > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/cyrillic@xxxxxxxx > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/ams@xxxxxxxx > $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/cracs@xxxxxxxx > $ chmod +x *.sh > > then run > $ ./amstex.sh install > will install amstex > $ ./latex.sh install > will install latex > $ ./graphics@xxxxxxxx > > will install graphics capabilities for latex > > and so on. > > Paths will need to be added manually to ~/.bash_profile for > the shell to find tex in case you take the initiative to > install it. It can comfortable live with texlive, and > tetex in that it does not aim to take over as the main tex > distribution. > > dvipdfm, pdftex, pdflatex are not found in KerTeX. But > dvips is present and outputs to postcript. AMSLatex > was recently added as a package. It is a small and > portable TeX Distribution. > > To include graphics in latex documents, use > \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} > > In case you run into trouble with fonts/font generation when > using -G option in dvips > $ dvips -G -t letter $1.dvi > $1.ps > > then, as root user > # echo ';ams;' > /usr/local/share/kertex/fonts/mf/KXPATH > > > as it has this bug. It will be fixed shortly. > > Should you take the plunge to try out kerTeX, and have > questions, comments, observations, please let me know so I > can help if needed. > > Regards, > > > Antonio > -- Forgot about something :( when getting the packages, ./latex.sh, /amstex.sh, etc. ========================================================== [students@localhost kerTeX]$ ./graphics@xxxxxxxx install KERTEX_VERSION=0.9999.3.0 KERTEX_HOST=linux-x86_64-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 KERTEX_SHELL=/bin/sh KERTEX_BINDIR=/usr/local/bin/kertex KERTEX_LIBDIR=/usr/local/share/kertex KERTEX_MANDIR=/usr/local/share/kertex/man KERTEX_USER0=root KERTEX_GROUP0=wheel graphics@xxxxxxxx: latex: FOUND. cd: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted This is TeX, kerTeX C Version 3.1415926 ! I can't find file `graphics.ins'. <*> &latex graphics.ins Please type another input file name: ========================================================== To solve this: cd: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted Run from command line $ cat >~/.lftp/rc <<EOT > set ssl:verify-certificate no > EOT $ and retry the installation of the packages. I knew I forgot something. Happy TeXing & LaTeXing Regards, Antonio -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
