John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> writes: > ________________________________ > From: Alan L Tyree <alanty...@gmail.com> > To: John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> > Cc: David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu>; "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" > <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 4:26:16 PM > Subject: Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version? > > > John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> writes: > <SNIP> > Unfortunately that is what I did. I installed Tex Live 2012 using the > software centre since synaptics did not seem to have the 2012 version and any > manual instructions on how to update were close to jibberish to me. > > Now I cannot find it, yet both the software centre and synaptics report that > it is installed. I know I have Tex Live 2011 installed in /user etc where one > would expect it. > John@john-K53U:~$ which latex > /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/latex > > Actually just to check things out I installed abiwork using apt-install a few > hours ago with no problem! > > I expect that I am missing something really basic but where I have no idea. > > What I do find interesting is that synaptics does not seem to see TeX Live > 2011 yet it is clearly there and LyX is using it.
Sorry for the noise, John. I should have read the whole thread more carefully. I have a machine where I did a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 just a week ago, so it is pretty clean. I get: alant@windy:~$ which latex /usr/bin/latex Further investication shows that this is a symlink to /usr/bin/pdftex.I'm not sure why you get the full path. Looking at the Ubuntu Software Centre shows me only texlive 2009 (rather old), but no other texlive options. I'm not sure where you got the 2011 or 2012 packages. Have you added a different repository? Cheers, Alan > >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> >> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:05:48 PM >> Subject: Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version? >> >> >> On 09/01/2012 11:22 AM, John Kane wrote: >> >> Sorry to butt in here, but these outputs seem very strange. This >> looks to me like there is something very amiss with your system. >> Now, I use debian, not ubuntu, but ubuntu is debian-based, so it >> should not be all that different. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>john@john-K53U:~$ find / -path '/proc' -prune -perm /u=x,g=x,a=x ! -type d >>>-name latex >>>find: `/tmp/.esd-104': Permission denied >>>find: `/tmp/pulse-2L9K88eMlGn7': Permission denied >>>find: `/tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n': Permission denied >>>find: `/etc/ppp/peers': Permission denied >>>find: `/etc/chatscripts': Permission denied >>>find: `/etc/cups/ssl': Permission denied >> ... >>> >>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Which seems to tell me nothing. But what do I know? >>> >> That seems to say that you don't have access to much of anything in >> the system. How can that be? Maybe a regular user shouldn't be >> able to write to some of those directories, but read?? >> >> I thought that this was a bit funny but I thought that maybe I need to use >> sudo to actually write there. As I say, I know virtuallly nothing about how >> linux works. >> >> So I may have a serious problem. On the other hand I don't seem to have any >> obvious problems installing applications. For example I installed gnumeric >> from either synaptics or the software centre a few day ago and just as a >> quick test sudoapt-get install abiword seems to have worked fine just now. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live >> deserve death. >> And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not >> be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
