I installed teTex manually, and then tried to reinstall system-teTex, 
but I am still getting a configure error.  The error is

  /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/sytem-tetex.postinst command not found: ranlib [6]

dpkg then exits returning an error code (1)



On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:43 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:

>> I seem to be having problems with octave and tex.  When I try to 
>> install
>> Octave, I am forced to choose system-tetex as a dependency.  But
>> system-tetex fails with an error code (1) and the installation script
>> returns an error exit status 100 code.  I have tried to install
>> tetex-base instead, but fink won't let me access it all.
>
> I'll bet you are using one of the binary install methods: apt-get or
> dselect or the binary option in FinkCommander.  One of the components
> of tex (the tetex-texmf package) is not available in binary form, for
> licensing reasons, so you have to install it from source.  For this,
> you need the Apple Developer Tools installed.  If they are present,
> then issuing the command "fink install tetex-texmf" will install the
> missing piece.  After that, you should be able to install tetex-base
> using your binary install method.
>
> Alternatively, you could install tex outside of Fink, and use Fink's
> system-tetex package to make Fink aware of the external tex 
> installation.
> (The reason system-tetex won't install is that you don't have the
> external tex package installed.)  You can get the external tex package
> at http://www.rna.nl/tex.html .
>
>   -- Dave
>
>



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