This is similar to problems already posted to the fink-users list, but I have not seen a suitable answer. This problem is the old "You don't have a valid teTeX installation; you are missing /usr/local/teTeX/..." and it goes on to complain about no lib/ subdirectory and in particular no kpathsea directory. I am getting this message on a MacOSX system (10.4).
I used i-Installer to put teTeX on my system. II2 worked great, and it installed TeX (i.e. teTeX and friends) into /usr/local/teTeX/ and /usr/local/teTeX/{bin,share} have all that I want and need. I can latex and view to my heart's content with TS, iTM, and/or the command line.
As a final touch, I just wanted to inform fink that I had a nice teTeX installation and that it should be as happy as I am. But no-o-o, ... it goes around and checks for files and is unhappy that kpathsea is not on my system.
Kpathsea is just a happy little utility for doing directory searches; it is certainly not required for running TeX. I suspect that fink is assuming that any "valid teTeX installation" would include kpathsea, and that the TeX i-package thinks otherwise. (By the way, I DO think kpathsea is a wonderful utility!)
My problem: I don't know who can fix this Fink faux pas. For myself, I am just going to skip the final touch of running "sudo fink install system-tetex" and make myself a mental note that teTeX is indeed already installed.
D.
I went through this a few weeks ago. If you want to use the i-Installer, I think you need to select the Expert install mode, and select the "Tex Programs (Developers Extras)" option.
Kevin Horton
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