Yeah, texlive is like 1 GB. I used it once about 10 years ago but I have it on every Debian or Raspbian machine. I wish there was more flexibility in dependencies somehow.
Sent from my Motorola XT1527 On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 9:32 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2018 04:07:28 Diego Roversi wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:15:47 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 June 2018 09:18:29 David Pottage wrote: > > > Now I need to locate a source for xelatex so I can print the docs > > > and get started. apt can't find it it the repo's. Sigh... Hints > > > welcomed of course. > > > > I think you should install texlive-xetex package. Or just install > > texlive, if you have planty of disk space. > > texlive @ 500 megs of stuff was not enough, and the texlive-xetex is > another 500 mags. Installing now. But the pi-3b is painfully slow at > installing all that. The spi bus that runs my machinery seems 100x > faster. 41 megabaud writes, 25 megabaud reads. > > All this stuff is going into a 32 or 64 GB u-sd card. But I intend to > move the lcnc's nc_files to this SSD if it works to build a kernel as > that will take 90% of the write exercise off the u-sd. > > Color depth of the video framebuffer needs help but I doubt if that will > ever happen given its current update speed. I'm getting used to the slow > screen updates. Under 10 frames a second, so what I see in the backplot > is always 1/4" behind the machine if its moving at any great speed. The > rock64 is easily 50x faster than a pi, but support for non-media > applications is non-existent. The mali gfx in the rock64 looks great in > the propaganda, but is only now getting some experimental support. > Despite all that, its still blindingly faster than the pi. But I can't > use it until the spi driver we have for the pi, has been ported to > the "pi like" gpio facilities the rock64 has. While I've written all > this, the pi has only 33% completed the texlive-xerex kit. > copy/paste from its ssh session: > > Need to get 344 MB of archives. > After this operation, 507 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main > preview-latex-style all 11.87-3+deb8u1 [318 kB] > Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main > texlive-latex-extra all 2014.20141024-1 [7,604 kB] > Get:3 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main > texlive-latex-extra-doc all 2014.20141024-1 [327 MB] > Get:4 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main > texlive-xetex all 2014.20141024-2+deb8u1 [9,259 kB] > Fetched 344 MB in 5min 15s (1,091 kB/s) > Selecting previously unselected package preview-latex-style. > (Reading database ... 204633 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../preview-latex-style_11.87-3+deb8u1_all.deb ... > Unpacking preview-latex-style (11.87-3+deb8u1) ... > Selecting previously unselected package texlive-latex-extra. > Preparing to unpack .../texlive-latex-extra_2014.20141024-1_all.deb ... > Unpacking texlive-latex-extra (2014.20141024-1) ... > Selecting previously unselected package texlive-latex-extra-doc. > Preparing to > unpack .../texlive-latex-extra-doc_2014.20141024-1_all.deb ... > Unpacking texlive-latex-extra-doc (2014.20141024-1) ... > > Progress: [ 33%] > > [#########################################................................................................................] > > Please $DIETY, deliver me from this bottleneck of getting data into an > u-sd card. Do it by making the rock64 usable. If nothing else, a pi with > an internal usb-3 port replaceing its internal usb-2 and 2-4GB of ram, > would be a huge leap in the right direction. Booting from e-MMC right on > the cpu bus would also be helpfull, but that internal usb2 port used for > everything but spi & wifi, has GOT to be replaced with something faster > as it barely makes usb-1.1 speeds. > > pi is done, finally. > > Next roadblock, make pdfdocs can't find sphinx, 1.3 or better. And apt > can't find it either... Sigh. > > I guess I go out and see if synaptic can show me anything on its own > screen. This is a jessie based install. But with a pinned realtime > kernel a few versions lower than what I'm attempting to build. 4.4.4 > something. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > >
