TeX novice seeking hand holding walk thru building TeX on Unix
Larry W. Virden
I currently don't have available the options of purchasing one of the
fine CD-ROMs or even downloading binary distributions of TeX due to
non-technical issues that are a) not important to this group and b)
irreversible at this time.
However, I do have the option of building a distribution from Source.
I am building this for a Solaris 2.5.1 system, with Sun's unbundled
C compiler. I have fetched the unixtex.ftp file (I believe it was called)
and from there fetched two tar files. One contains TeX3.14159 subdirectories
and the other had something called texmf. I built and installed TeX 3.14159.
However, the texmf tar file had what appears to be just std Solaris 'packages'
that I can't use - plus a directory called reloc. This directory appears
to have stuff that might be useful to install, if I had any idea whatsoever
how to do so.
I have built a lot of GNU and X based packages so I shouldn't need a lot
of help. I just need a few nudges in the right direction.
One of the things that happened the last time someone installed tex here was
that we had a lot of warnings from the dvi to ps programs complaining
about not finding the right resolution fonts. If that problem arises again
I may have a question or two on resolving that.
Is there perhaps a 'cookbook' document out there that walks someone thru
all this?
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Keith Davies
On 22 Feb 1997 15:20:19 -0500, lw...@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) wrote:
> I currently don't have available the options of purchasing one of the
> fine CD-ROMs or even downloading binary distributions of TeX due to
> non-technical issues that are a) not important to this group and b)
> irreversible at this time.
>
> However, I do have the option of building a distribution from Source.
>
> I am building this for a Solaris 2.5.1 system, with Sun's unbundled
> C compiler. I have fetched the unixtex.ftp file (I believe it was called)
> and from there fetched two tar files. One contains TeX3.14159 subdirectories
> and the other had something called texmf. I built and installed TeX 3.14159.
> However, the texmf tar file had what appears to be just std Solaris 'packages'
> that I can't use - plus a directory called reloc. This directory appears
> to have stuff that might be useful to install, if I had any idea whatsoever
> how to do so.
texmf is used to build the fonts used for printing from the metrics
known; not having this installed could also explain the messages about
not having the right resolution fonts (below)
> One of the things that happened the last time someone installed tex here was
> that we had a lot of warnings from the dvi to ps programs complaining
> about not finding the right resolution fonts. If that problem arises again
> I may have a question or two on resolving that.
>
> Is there perhaps a 'cookbook' document out there that walks someone thru
> all this?
Making TeX Work by Norman Walsh (O'Reilly & Associates) has a section
on building the source IIRC (it's been a long time since I read it).
If you're administering TeX I suggest you pick it up anyway.
Keith
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