* Jos van Kan
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 04:18, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 22:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carl E. Hartung
[05-25-04 20:54]: 4. All the above links are broken because it seems texexec has taken a cruise. It is nowhere to be found on the file system and I'm perplexed. I've googled this a bit, but I'm not a teTeX user and what I'm finding isn't making any sense -- no context. Do I have a broken package? What is the appropriate fix?
pin texexec yealds: ./CD1/suse/i586/tetex-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm
and all your referenced links...
Thank you, Patrick, for a precise and painless reply! I very much appreciate it - Carl
Hmmm. On my 9.0 system I have tetex-2.0.2-48.i586 installed and yet I have the same broken links as Carl has. But *my* pin tells me differently:
./CD3/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 93024 Jan 23 2003 /usr/share/texmf/context/perltk/texexec.pl
plus all relevant documentation and man files. Texexec is mainly a wrapper, so you could live without it. But if you use tex for a variety of invocations it could come in handy. There's a manual in the same package: /usr/share/texmf/doc/context/base/mtexexec.pdf If you only use latex or pdflatex you don't need it.
the full output: pin 0.29 - package info for texexec ------------------------------------------------------------------ *** no rpm named texexec installed ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ *** zgrep texexec /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------ ./CD1/suse/i586/tetex-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/fdf2tan -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/tetex-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/makempy -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/tetex-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/texfind -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/tetex-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/texfont -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 49 Sep 24 01:12 /usr/bin/texexec -> ../share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 39 Sep 24 01:12 /usr/share/man/man1/texexec.1.gz -> ../../texmf/teTeX/man/man1/texexec.1.gz ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 93024 Jan 23 2003 /usr/share/texmf/context/perltk/texexec.pl ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 4873 Sep 7 2001 /usr/share/texmf/context/perltk/texexec.rme ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 111621 Nov 13 2001 /usr/share/texmf/doc/context/base/mtexexec.pdf ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/mptopdf -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rwxr-xr-x root root 718 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/texshow -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 7 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux-libc6/texutil -> texexec ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 6586 Sep 24 01:10 /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/man/man1/texexec.1.gz ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 4873 Sep 7 2001 /var/lib/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini ./CD1/suse/i586/te_cont-2.0.2-48.i586.rpm: -rw-r--r-- root root 4873 Sep 7 2001 /var/lib/texmf/context/config/texexec.rme -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711