In case anyone's had a rough day, I thought it might be worth reporting some good news: I've been trying for a while (understatement) to get Nikos Drakos' latex2html package (http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html) to work, and finally succeeded this afternoon.
To do this, I (thought I) had to recompile Perl with some flags turned off. With help from this group I succeeded at that today, and finally did get latex2html to work. (One has to also "patch" the latex2html source code by adding a simple invocation to a DBM file at the top of it: "require AnyDBM_File;"). But the larger lesson I learned from all this was that whatever reasons I had for moving to Debian before this just *pale* in comparison to the joy of being able to tune and reinstall large, complex source package like Perl by minor edits to a small, elegant file like debian.rules. In effect, the debian design principles make those packages far more accessible to ordinary users. My next goal is to learn how to debianize a package myself so I can contribute to this terrific endeavor. Thanks! Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
