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Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
tetex is dead and buried.
Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says:
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De-support notice
I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
more (May 2006).
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In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex.
Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live.
On 26 May 2011 21:20, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>>>
>>> I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
>>> even been able to install it successfully.
>>>
>>> I admit it, I'm a dolt.
>>>
>>> Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?
>>>
>>> I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.
>>
>> As it happens, I'm running tetex as we speak. It's never been a problem
>> for me, except the time I had MikTex in my cygwin path and the two
>> fought. I don't know anything about ec-fonts or jadetex, though. Here
>> are the cygwin packages I have installed:
>>
>> tetex          3.0.0-3
>> tetex-base       Â3.0.0-3
>> tetex-bin        3.0.0-3
>> tetex-extra       3.0.0-3
>> tetex-tiny       Â3.0.0-3
>>
>>> Problem reports: Â Â Â http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>> You didn't say what OS or version of cygwin you're running, but assuming
>> it's 1.7 you might try a fresh install to, say, c:\cygwin-tex, which
>> includes only the base packages and tetex. It won't harm your existing
>> install in any way, and you should be able to use the saved packages
>> from previous downloads rather than having to download again.
>>
>> If that works you probably have a corrupted cygwin installation (which
>> would make sense given all the strange errors you mention); if it
>> doesn't work then something really weird is going on.
>
> Another alternative if the OP wants a modern TeX system is TeX Live
> (http://www.tug.org/texlive/). ÂIt supports Cygwin OOTB.
>
> Ken
>
Dmitrii
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