[27476] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: tetex-extra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Jul 22 09:45:57 2010
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:45:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
To: kanak@mit.edu
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Hi,
We provide a fairly complete set of TeXLive utilities, as opposed to
TeTeX; TeXLive is the newer distribution recommended by the TeX community
and included by default in Ubuntu and other OSes. The link you provide
dates the tetex-extra recommendation to 2007, and has a newer
recommendation for texlive-latex-extra, which we do install (as well as a
number of other texlive-* packages).
That said, \usepackage{fullpage} generally works for me, and I just
confirmed that I can compile the following file with pdflatex with no
errors:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\begin{document}
hi
\end{document}
Do you have anything else in the file that might be giving errors, or do
you have something in your dotfiles that might be causing another version
of TeX to be run? (What's the output of "type pdflatex" and "echo
$TEXINPUTS"?)
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, kanak@MIT.EDU wrote:
> System name: m12-182-22
> Type: i686
> Display type: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3450
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/bash (?)
> Window manager: unknown
>
> What were you trying to do?
> Use pdflatex to convert a tex file to pdf
>
> What's wrong:
> The tetex-extra package is not included in default distribution. This package has a number of useful (and commonly used) latex packages such as "fullpage".
>
> What should have happened:
> tetex-extra package should be installed by default in athena.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=488611
>
