I have decided to uninstall debian tetex from my system, and install tetex 3.0 from source. I am running into configure problems, however. I am relatively inexperienced with the technology involved, so couldn't understand many of the options to ./configure. I had no problems up to step 5 of the installation instructions (INSTALL.TXT).
In step 3, I created the two directories /usr/local/share/texmf and /usr/local/share/texmf-dist. I then unpacked the tetex-texmf.tar.gz and and tetex-texmfsrc.tar.gz into the latter. In step 5, I said: sh -c './configure --prefix=/usr/local >configure.log 2>&1' & but configure.log shows: ,-----[ configure.log ] | creating cache ./config.cache | checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes | checking for gcc... gcc | checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes | checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no | checking whether we are using GNU C... yes | checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes | checking for c++... c++ | checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... yes | checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) is a cross-compiler... no | checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes | checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes | checking for flex... lex | checking for yywrap in -ll... no | configure: error: no working lexical scanner (lex/flex) found `----- and I cannot determine what this means. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks you. -- Sebastian P. Luque