[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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."
You don't need to store musixtex files within the main texmf directory
tree. Actually it is wiser to keep them within a 'private' texmt
directory tree like /usr/local/share/texmf, see the instructions
creating a local texmf tree,
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex-for-unix.html#TOC7.
If you keep all musixtex stuff within a local texmf tree then you can
just carry that texmf tree further when you do your next linux upgrade.
I realize that the *nix HOWTO needs revisions in this - and other - sections
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".
you're right. The recent PMX Beta/bugfix Version zip distribution does
not include an outer directory. You need to create that yourself, store
the zip file in that directory and do the compiling there. Don't forget
to edit the Fortran source file before compling, see
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex-for-unix.html#TOC18
Again I would be grateful for any help with my amateurish problems!
Hartmut
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