Re: running texconfig on a console
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Christopher Pinon wrote: Hi again, Hi Christopher, I have a question about running texconfig on a console. On one machine that I sometimes use (Slackware), running texconfig results in a nice menu of options that you can choose from. On another machine (Debian Potato), running texconfig simply results in a list of options (no nice menu). I was wondering what exactly is required for texconfig to present a menu. I thought at first that ncurses was the requirement, but the Debian system has ncurses (both 4 and 5) installed, so something else must (also) be needed. Look at the dependencies of the Debian package of tetex-bin (the package that includes texconfig): -- snip -- $ apt-cache show tetex-bin Package: tetex-bin Priority: standard Section: tex Installed-Size: 5898 Maintainer: teTeX maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 1.0.6-7 ... Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2), libpng2, libstdc++2.10, libz1, tetex-lib (= 1.0.6-6), xlib6g (= 3.3.6), tetex-lib (= 1.0.6), tetex-base (= 1.0-5), ed, debianutils (= 1.13.1) Pre-Depends: dpkg-perl Recommends: dialog Suggests: lpr, gs, tetex-extra, texinfo ... -- snip -- You need the dialog package. Thanks, Ch. Pinon cu Adrian -- Is there not promise of rain? Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. Only a promise, Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
Re: running texconfig on a console
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: George == George N White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The nice menu display is done using the dialog utility, so you should check that dialog is installed and works with your teTeX provides its own dialog, called tcdialog, which uses its own termcap library. Can you invoke tcdialog from the commandline? This seems to be system dependent. From TeXlive's texconfig: # Some systems have their own dialog. Use it then and do not use # faked TERM and TERMINFO variables when calling that dialog. Some systems appears to be defined as BSD and linux. My SGI does indeed use tcdialog. -- George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
Re: running texconfig on a console
Thanks to George, Reinhard, and Adrian for their helpful points. Since the Debian system is an i386, dialog is no doubt what texconfig is missing. I'll add dialog this evening to verify this! Regards, Christopher Pinon
Re: running texconfig on a console
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Christopher Pinon wrote: Hi again, I have a question about running texconfig on a console. On one machine that I sometimes use (Slackware), running texconfig results in a nice menu of options that you can choose from. On another machine (Debian Potato), running texconfig simply results in a list of options (no nice menu). I was wondering what exactly is required for texconfig to present a menu. I thought at first that ncurses was the requirement, but the Debian system has ncurses (both 4 and 5) installed, so something else must (also) be needed. The nice menu display is done using the dialog utility, so you should check that dialog is installed and works with your console. For example, the TERM environment variable set incorrectly: $ TERM=unknown dialog --yesno '\n' 4 20 ; echo $? Error opening terminal: unknown. 1 Texconfig trys to ensure that TERM has a sensible value before running dialog (see the check_terminal function). -- George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 902.426.8509 Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada (TZ=AST4ADT)
Re: running texconfig on a console
George == George N White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The nice menu display is done using the dialog utility, so you should check that dialog is installed and works with your teTeX provides its own dialog, called tcdialog, which uses its own termcap library. Can you invoke tcdialog from the commandline? Regards, Reinhard -- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-27060390 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard;kammer.uni-hannover.de Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
