Hi, again!
I've just noticed a potential installation problem that might occur on
computers running a recent Linux distribution. It happend to me at
home last week when I upgraded to SuSE Linux 5.2 and tried to re-install
PMX according to the Quick Installation instructions.
It seems (this may get a bit technical, so don't hesitate to skip this
paragraph if you're new to the Unix world) that the LaTeX binaries have
been moved to /usr/bin/TeX/, which is not in the usual search path. Of
course, startup scripts have been adapted to include /usr/bin/TeX/ in the
user's search path. However, after typing "su root" I got into a shell
with the most basic path settings only. Thus, the install script can't
find the "kpsetool" binary and thinks the system hasn't got a teTeX
distribution.
It is easy to find out whether you've got this problem or not. Simply
follow the Quick Installation instructions. If install.pmx reports that
you haven't got a teTeX distribution, try typing "latex" on the command
line (before entering the "exit" line). If you get a "command not found"
error, this is probably due to the problem described above. In that case,
the Quick Install instructions should be changed to
<login as root>
<go to the PMX source directory (pmx-1.3.7)>
make
make install
./install.pmx
I'll probably change the instructions in the next release.
Share and enjoy!
-Stefan
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