> I am a Linux Newbie and I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 and
> KDE. I am presently writing a thesis in*(formerly using TeX
> for Windows), and I wanted to go on on my fresh Mandrake system, but
> apparently there is no TeX available.
> How do I check whether I was just to stupid to find it? Please,
> please, easy explanation for complete newbie!
> When I installed Tex, I chose the option "scientific workstation"
> ("Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitsplatzrechner), so it really should be
> there. But in case it actually isn't, what do I do?
Apparently the "Scientific workstation" option must load in various
software related to computational tasks, but this evidently doesn't
include TeX.
The software is doubtless there, on one or another of the CDs.
You'll have to:
- log in as root
- Mount the CD (command is "mount"; find documentation by command
"man mount"; configuration information is in /etc/fstab)
- Look on the CD for several packages entitled "tetex-something.rpm"
A useful command to this end would be:
find /cdrom -name 'tetex*.rpm'
(Change /cdrom to wherever the CD is actually mounted)
You might have to switch CDs to find the right one; that would
involve the command "unmount /cdrom" (where the path might vary a
bit).
- Once you have found the packages, you'll want to install them.
You might head to the directory where they're found, and thus do:
# cd /cdrom/some/path/somewhere
# rpm -i tetex-this.rpm tetex-that.rpm tetex-other.rpm
Alternatively, you might try:
find /cdrom -name 'tetex*.rpm' | xargs rpm -i
which will try to do it all in one fell swoop.
It is entirely possible that the rpm command will fail, complaining
that something that's needed isn't installed; that actually is
suggestive that it would be wiser to do
# cd /cdrom/some/path/somewhere
so you can just rerun the rpm command, adding in the missing RPMs.
Thus, if it complains about not having texinfo, you'd just press
C-P (Control-P) to go to the previous command, thus meaning you
have your cursor where I put the "_" on the command line:
# rpm -i tetex-*.rpm_
You could then just type in "texinfo", and press [TAB] to try
completing the name, which is likely to achieve something like:
# rpm -i tetex-*.rpm texinfo-4.5.6-3.1mdk.i586.rpm
If there were five things that were missing, type in all five.
Mandrake more than likely has some menued tool that can do this sort
of thing in an arguably "friendlier" manner; avail yourself of it if
you wish...
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