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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
