Randy McMurchy wrote:
> On 1/19/2011 7:58 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Notes:
>>
>> 1. The texlive-20100722-texmf.tar.xz file is huge. I think it is
>> larger than anything else in BLFS by a factor of 4. I have no idea why
>> the latex documentation alone approaches 1G. The download (on a fairly
>> fast connection) took longer than the entire make.
>
> I'm not sure it is fair to call the TeX Metafont package "documentation",
> unless of course, you actually traced all the files into docs, and if so
> I stand corrected.
du -sh /usr/share/texmf-dist/doc
1.1G /usr/share/texmf-dist/doc
du -sh /usr/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex
748M /usr/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex
It's the .pdf files that take up the space. For example:
ls -l /usr/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex/fancynum
total 112
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363 Oct 6 2006 CHANGES
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1072 Jan 8 2006 README
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5936 Jan 8 2006 aue.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 6114 Jan 8 2006 ctt.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 584 Jan 8 2006 dbltable.tex
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1608 Jan 8 2006 examples.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75003 May 30 2009 fancynum.pdf
I have used TeX fairly extensively, but I tried LaTeX in 1992 and
couldn't do what I wanted, so I went to plain TeX and never tried LaTeX
again.
>> 3. texconfig-sys font rw failed for me.
>>
>> /usr/bin/texconfig: line 257:
>>
>> I traced it down to the line `kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFMAIN`
>> returning //texmf
>
> That is a drag. Please try to see what happened. I put in the book
> what is in my build script (from a couple of months ago, as I
> wanted to give TeX Live a thorough checkout). Here is what I get
> when I issue the same command from different users on my system:
>
> rml@rmlinux: ~/build > kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFMAIN
> /usr/share/texmf
I can make some progress with
export TEXMFSYSVAR=/usr/share/texmf
texconfig-sys does:
v=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR`
c=`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG`
TEXMFVAR="$v"
TEXMFCONFIG="$c"
texconfig_sys=1
export TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG
exec texconfig ${1+"$@"}
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Right now I'm stuck at updmap-sys. It says:
!!! ERROR! The map file `allrunes.map' has not been found at all.
Either put this file into the right place or remove the
reference from the configuration file. An automatic way
to disable unavailable map files is to call
updmap --syncwithtrees
It is in /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/allrunes/allrunes.map
That's probably an environment variable too, but I haven't figured out
which one yet.
The other commands complete without complaining.
-- Bruce
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