On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 02:53, Martin Costabel wrote: <snip> > The author of TeXmacs had less problems than me, because on the machine > where he tried this procedure, Gerben Wierda's tetex was installed, so > he could use the system-tetex package and managed to use the bindist for > texmacs, after all. He was not too happy, though, because he tried to > follow the instructions from the Fink web page and had all the usual > problems with this, like ~/.cshrc not taken into account because of > existing ~/.tcshrc. On the Fink download page, this is still not fixed. > This has been mentioned to me by various other users. I've been meaning to add a section to the Users Guide page to mention this issue, and it _is_ in the FAQ.
The problem is that there are several parallel sets of instructions out there, rather than a centralized one. It would involve a fair amount of effort to go through every page which refers to "source .cshrc" and add .tcshrc-specific instructions to it. > Then there is dselect which is still recommended on the download page. I > think no innocent newbie should be asked to use dselect, the shock might > be too strong. Actually I wonder how many potential Fink users give up > at this point to be never seen again. Mentioning FinkCommander here > would be better. > I agree with the notion of recommending FinkCommander. It's much more user-friendly. > We made a web page http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Fink.html with > instructions to install TeXmacs via Fink, but right now the part about > installing from the bindist only works if tetex is installed from > outside of Fink. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
