Alexander K. Hansen wrote:


On Apr 6, 2004, at 9:17 AM, Jeffry C Nichols wrote:


One of the dependancies for xdrawchem is system-tetex, but I don't have tetex installed. Is there a way to complete the xdrawchem install using just the system-tetex placeholder, or do I need to install everything (as the error message suggests)


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You don't a valid teTeX installation; you were missing
/usr/local/teTeX/lib/libkpathsea.a /usr/local/teTeX/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h /usr/loca
l/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf


Install the tetex-texmf and tetex-base packages instead,
or install teTeX manually from
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
and then retry installing the system-tetex package.
[]

This gives already some hint of what to do.

You need some form of TeTeX (e.g. the Wierda distribution) to use the system-tetex package--that's kind of the point of it.

But, the problem is that Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution has morphed into a kind of big package managing system with a sort of splitoffs (plus packages for libraries, dependency checking etc; no sources, though). One consequence of this is that just by installing "the" GW tetex package, you have no guarantee that all necessary files are present. There is a kind of "GW-tetex-dev" package - it's a different name that I don't know by heart - that contains the files marked as missing above, the kpathsea library, tex-file.h and texmf.cnf. You need to install this thing, too.


--
Martin



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