> > I am suffering with installing TeX on PANTHER 10.3. I had installed > > tetex, tetex-base, tetex-shlib, latex2html, xdvi through the Fink > > Commander (using the Sources button). > > Everyhting was fine except that xdvi would not work, complaining that > > fonts were missing and was unable to reinstall them (permission > > problem --- I even tried sudo xdvi filename, but still got the > > permission problem). > > > > So, I decided to uninstall (with Fink Commander) these packages using > > the uninstall button. > > > > Then, not only did the "current" status disappear from the Fink > > Commander line for the package, but all the tetex packages > > disappeared! > > > > I tried the update button (in rsync mode), but nothing changed. > > > > I tried running directly in an X11 window > > > > sudo fink install tetex > > > > but I would get the message > > > > 195 packages read in 0 seconds. > > Failed: no package found for specification 'tetex'! > > > > I am also surprised that so few packages were read... > > > > So, I tried > > > > sudo fink selfupdate-cvs > > > > and a few minutes it finished with > > > > Information about 195 packages read in 2 seconds. > > > > Still no sign of tetex!!! Neither through fink nor through > > FinkCommander, which I had quit and restarted... > > > > Any ideas on what I should do to 1) recover TeX and 2) get xdvi to > > work properly with its fonts? > >
> This looks suspiciously like you weren't getting the 10.3 versions of > packages: > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#wrong-tree > > Alexander Hansen > Fink Documentarian > [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX It worked! I did /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl and after some installation the tetex and other libraries reappeared in my FinkCommander list (which now counts 1500 entries). Many thanks! Gary (VIII '79) P.S. I will let you know how I come along with my initial xdvi font problem. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
