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sud_crow

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2003-06-30

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Why LaTeX isnt in the repositories?

Hi,

I just realised that Arch wont let me build its own documentation! (thats funny!)

When i started i used MDK most of the time, then i used LFS, now im using Arch and everyday i like it better.

Now, when i went to create the files (i use some scripts Dennis gave me) to convert the .tex files to DVI, HTML and TXT. i get that latex its not found, then i make a search and its not there, also i make a pacman -Sy latex and dont find it either...

what should i do?

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sud_crow

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2003-06-30

Posts: 546

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Re: Why LaTeX isnt in the repositories?

Hi,

well, it seems that i couldnt find latex becouse that thing doesnt exist 
d'oh!

sorry, i searched a bit more and found a "latex2html" so i decided to try running it at console, get nothing, then i made a locate, found some replies about it and some other latex2xxx, so i sayd...mmmm.... pacman -Sy latex2html
and voila!

downloading tetex and latex2html and a couple of dependencies...

just posted this so if someone goes the same way i did :oops: will  know what to do

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Leonardo Andrés Gallego
www.archlinux-es.org || Comunidad Hispana de Arch Linux

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

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Re: Why LaTeX isnt in the repositories?

yeah tetex is a latex replacement

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andy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2002-10-11

Posts: 374

Re: Why LaTeX isnt in the repositories?

errrr, no, tetex is a distribution (much like the various linux distributions) of tex, which bundels TeX, LaTeX, dvips, xdvi, some pdf-tools and a large number of packages, styles and fonts.