Hello and a big thank you to all the helpful and sympathizing people who encouraged me to not give up my attempts to get the version T102 of MusiXTeX und PMX! I must say that I have not yet reached my aim completely as PMX still does not work, but version T102 of MusiXTeX does! This would never have been the case without the invaluable help of Christian Mondrup who overcame the major difficulty to explain to me what I had to do (while the technical installation itself was certainly the by far easier problem for him). He thought it would be a good idea to write a little report of the steps I hade made under his guidance to help other people who encounter similar problems as I did. Maybe the following is too lengthy for experts (I am sure it is!) but, at least, I hope it is correct and clear enough for other beginners like me.
************************************************************** My situation was the following: Operating system = Linux (SuSE Linux 6.2). Noticed that the MusiXTeX version from the Linux distribution was too old to run PMX with it. Therefore wished to get the current version of MusiXTeX (that is, T102) from the internet in order to get afterwards PMX once MusixTeX-T102 was successfully installed. As I said, I was not yet lucky with PMX but the following describes how I got MusiXTeX-T102: ************************************************************** At first I uninstalled the old MusiXTeX version from the SuSE Linux 6.2 distribution. (For people who have not installed any MusiXTeX version before, this is of course of no interest. But to avoid conflicts, there should be no trace of an older MusiXTeX version in the system files.) Then I created a directory (here called "T102") in an appropriate path where I wished to save the file musixtex-T102.tar.gz from the download: mkdir .../T102 Then I downloaded musixtex-T102.tar.gz into .../T102, changed my current working directory by entering cd .../T102 and unpacked the downloaded file: tar xvfz musixtex-T102.tar.gz Apart from the downloaded file musixtex-T102.tar.gz, the directory T102/ now contained 5 subdirectories: doc/ , mf/ , systems/ , tex/ , tfm/ . After this I could begin with the installation. I logged out as user and logged in as root. Now I created two directories, both called "musixtex", one as a subdirectory of /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ and the other one as a subdirectory of /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/ : mkdir /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/musixtex mkdir /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/musixtex Then I copied all files contained in .../T102/tex/ into the first of these two directories and all files contained in .../T102/mf/ into the second : cp .../T102/tex/* /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/musixtex cp .../T102/mf/* /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/musixtex Then I entered texhash The last step of the installation concerned "musixflx" : I changed my current working directory by cd .../T102/systems/c-source and compiled musixflx by entering gcc musixflx.c -o musixflx By this, a file called "musixflx" was created in the directory .../T102/systems/c-source/ . Now I copied this file into the directory /usr/local/bin/ : cp .../T102/systems/c-source/musixflx /usr/local/bin At this point the installation of MusiXTeX-T102 was complete and the program executable. For the very first execution of the program, it is advisable to be logged in as root. During this first execution, fonts files are created, which takes some time. I processed a MusiXTeX-file (source.tex) I had on my hard disk by executing the three steps tex source.tex musixflx source tex source and the result was a perfect file source.dvi . ************************************************************* (By the way, my first (private) attempt to get MusiXTeX-T101 in its rpm-version did not work because SuSE's rpm obviously does not have the properties one would need for the .rpm file of MusiXTeX as given in the net.) Originally I thought it would be easy to get RPM once MusiXTeX was installed successfully (and RPM was my goal as, unfortunately, I just do not have the time to work with the original MusiXTeX). But no!, again something seems to be incompatible with Don Simons's files pmxab.f, pmxab.c and the way SuSE Linux tries to compile. I should conclude this report with a public special "Thank you" to Christian Mondrup! Hartmut Laue PS. Oh, just before sending this I realize that even more answers to my first post have come. Thanks to all of them. I know I must read them carefully which I have not done yet. Hartmut _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
