Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Dirk Laurie
2013/6/9 Raphaela evarapha...@gmail.com: thank you. I have now installed the full TeXlive package, but the instructions on the page for Unix-like systems are not working for me (all I get is a command 'tlmgr' not found message) and I don't know how to go about installing a package manually.

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Raphaela
On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 11:12:49 AM, dirk.lau...@gmail.com wrote: A chicken-and-egg problem. If you already have an older TeXLive it can used to get the new one going, but if you don't, your system can't see the necessary scripts. Find the directory texlive/2012/texmf/scripts

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Tennent
|2013/6/9 Raphaela evarapha...@gmail.com: | | thank you. I have now installed the full TeXlive package, but the | instructions on the page for Unix-like systems are not working for me |(all I | get is a command 'tlmgr' not found message) and I don't know how to go | about installing a

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Tennent
|Thanks, but I discovered after writing my last post that tlmgr is |actually absent from the version of TeXlive (even TeXlive-full) in the |Mint/Ubuntu repositories! I managed to install a musixTeX package via |the repositories, but it's out of date and doesn't work as it should. Raphaela: It

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Dirk Laurie
2013/6/10 Raphaela evarapha...@gmail.com: To that end, would someone be kind enough to explain how to add the relevant bin directory to my PATH? Where would I find the PATH and how do I add things to it? Say you have some excutables in /home/raphaela/texmf/bin. $ echo $PATH

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Simon Dreher
Hi Raphaela, (raphaela may have a local helper, but if that helper is hot enough to know about tl 2013, it's a bit odd that she needs _our_ help.) Correct. I'm on my own! My next step will be to attempt to remove the existing TeX installation using the software manager, and then go with

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Raphaela
On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 3:17:05 PM, dirk.lau...@gmail.com wrote: Where would I find the PATH and how do I add things to it? Say you have some excutables in /home/raphaela/texmf/bin. $ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games $

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Tennent
|Correct. I'm on my own! My next step will be to attempt to remove the |existing TeX installation using the software manager, and then go with |your strand (b). Once I have a TeX installation in place that tlmgr |(which seems to have been somewhat crudely removed from the full |version in the