Dear Musixtexers, For years I could use pmx without problems after Christian Mondrups had helped me generously with the installation, years ago. Now, however, I had to change to a newer version of my Linux system which is now SuSE Linux 9.3. The system works fine so far, but of course I'd like to have pmx again which has to be installed from the source files the links to them are given on "MusiXTeX and Related Software" (http://icking-music-archive.org/software/indexmt6.html). Trying to follow the instructions ("HOWTO install MusiXTeX, PMX, and M-Tx under Linux/Unix"), however, I encountered the following difficulties:
Point 1.2: "From the subdirectory mf of the MusiXTeX distribution copy all files to /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/musixtex/." Point 1.2: "Then either delete all files from the directory /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/musixtex/ or copy all files from the directory tfm of the MusiXTeX distribution." I tried that. But the existing files in those directories do not permit to write on them (at least, this is the default setting, and I hesitate to override as root such a default setting by brute force.) Point 3.1.1: "Compiling using Makefile" produced a big number of error messages. Therefore I tried "Compiling the FORTRAN source files", but there is the next problem: Point 3.1.2: "Download a PMX source distribution, for example pmx2506.zip into a temporary directory, for example /usr/local/src and unzip it. The result is a directory, pmx-2506." This does not work: The command unzip pmx2506.zip yields the 4 files pmx2506.for, pmxab.exe, pmxbeta.html, pmx.tex (where "...exe" shows that I am on the wrong continent!) There is no directory "pmx-2506". Again I would be grateful for any help with my amateurish problems! Hartmut _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
