texlive problems

Norman Gaywood ngaywood at une.edu.au
Mon Jun 16 22:35:41 UTC 2008


I love the fact that F9 is now using texlive instead of tetex. However,
I have found these 3 problems so far:

1. pcatcode.sty is missing. Example:

$ cat t.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsrefs}
\begin{document}
hello
\end{document}

$ latex t.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./t.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
   [...snip...]
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amscls/amsrefs.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty)

! LaTeX Error: File `pcatcode.sty' not found.
   [...snip...]

2. No kdvi program. kdvi used to be in kdegraphics but this no longer
seems to be the case. kdvi works very well with kile. Has this program
been dropped?

3. There seems to be a problem with pdf metapost processing. I haven't
tracked this down fully yet but a collection of metapost and latex files
that process correctly with tetex, produces this:

$ pdflatex premath.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./premath.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
   [..snip..]
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ltxmisc/a4wide.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ntgclass/a4.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))) (./premath.aux)

! Package graphics Error: Cannot convert premath-1.mps from MPS to PDF.
(graphics)                The support file `supp-pdf.tex' is missing.


-- 
Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia

ngaywood at une.edu.au            Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337
http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm    Fax:   +61 (0)2 6773 3312

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