texlive problems

Norman Gaywood ngaywood at une.edu.au
Tue Jun 17 01:36:47 UTC 2008


Thanks for all the responses. Here is a summary of what I have so far:

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:35:41AM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> 1. pcatcode.sty is missing. Example:
>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:11:11AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> That was removed due to licensing problems - see the texlive review
>> for more details:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229180

Interesting read. That thread seems to indicate that the problem has
been fixed upstream and it was touch and go if the update would make it
to the first release of F9. Seems this problem will go away eventually.

In the meantime I took the suggestion:

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:24:06PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> What I do here, is I would search for that *.sty file.  Found it here:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsrefs/pcatcode.sty

and did something like:
  sudo  mkdir -p /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/amscls/
  cd /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/amscls/
  sudo wget http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsrefs/pcatcode.sty
  sudo texhash

and now pcatcode.sty is found.
 
> 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?

Several people noted that kdvi has been replaced by okular in
kedgraphics. That's fine, we can live with that. One of my users
complained that okular does not implement "inverse search". A fix for
that seems to be on the way:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kde@lists.debian.org/msg27436.html

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

Still no solution for this. However,
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:26:30PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> $ rpm -qf `locate supp-pdf`
> texlive-texmf-doc-2007-17.fc9.noarch

locate supp-pdf

finds:

/usr/share/texmf/doc/pdftex/manual/samplepdf/supp-pdf.tex

as part of the texlive-texmf-doc-2007-17.fc9 package. This path is not
searched in normal latex processing.

I'm still playing with this problem.
 
Thanks for your help everyone.
-- 
Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia

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