On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the answer.
> I have debian etch with 5G harddisk which seems to be minimal for
> sage :(

The sage-vmware image that we distribute which is an ubuntu install, sage,
latex, etc., takes only 2.3GB.   I am careful to replace the spkg files in
spkg/standard by empty files (with the same names), and make sure things
like /var/cache/apt/ aren't full of junk.

>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             4.6G  4.0G  360M  92% /
>
> I installed maxima, maxima-shared,  texlive-base,  texlive-base,
> texlive-pstricks,  texlive-latex,  texlive-latex-base,  texlive-latex-
> recommended, fullpage.sty (probably from texlive-latex-extra, but I
> installed just this one file to save space on my disk) and gnuplot

I don't install maxima into sage-vmware, since Sage already includes maxima.


> The TeX file alone compiles fine. The dvips also works as expected.
> dvipng was missing in my installation, so I installed it just now.
> Unfortunately I have a text accces only from my home and I will test
> if this helps tomorow in my work.
>
> beamer is not installed, but I hope that it will be not necessary for
> %latex (not %slide)

It shouldn't be needed.

>
> Thank you for the answer, I will investigate your suggestions
>
> Robert Marik
>
>>
>> I don't know why it's not working, and I can't tell anything from the cryptic
>> latex error message above which to me says nothing except "it didn't work".
>> You might try installing dvipng and making sure that the latex beamer
>> package is installed (which gets used by %slide, not %latex).
>> I'm very puzzled.
>>
>> Which version of linux is on your server?  Can you latex documents
>> yourself...?  Can you try latexing sage10.tex generated above
>> (it can be tricky to find that file; if you need help, let me know)?
>>
>> William
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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