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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tejas,

When you hit "L", it should prompt you for each directory (and have the
default in the brackets). If it doesn't have the defaults there, then
here are what you'll select (based on my setup right now)


> <L> create symlinks in standard directories:  [X]
>             binaries to: /usr/local/bin
>             manpages to: /usr/local/man
>                 info to: /usr/local/info
> 

I should note that before I hit "L", the directories were empty. They
were populated when I hit "L" and selected the default values for each.
Essentially, I'm doing exactly what you are. I removed my current
installation, and am running it from the install-tl file that I
downloaded from the Authors page.

Hope this helps, and have a great weekend.:)
Patrick.

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 00:09 +0530, Tejas Kale wrote: 
> Thanks for the help, Patrick. You guessed it right, I didn't pay 
> attention and forgot to select the symlinks option. I uninstalled 
> texlive and restarted the process. After running install-tl, I entered O 
> and then L. Upon entering O, I am asked for 'New value for Binary 
> directory', 'New value for main directory' and 'New value for info 
> directory' with no defaults provided. What default directories should I 
> enter?
> 
> Thanks.
> Tejas
> 
> On Saturday 25 August 2012 11:54 PM, Patrick Dickey wrote:
> > When you ran the installation, did you select the option to create the
> > symlink?
> >
> >  From the GetInvolved Authors page:
> >
> >
> >>          You should also enable the creation of the symlinks:
> >>          
> >>               1. From the main TeX Live installation menu select
> >>                  Options (O).
> >>               2. From the Options menu, select “create symlinks in
> >>                  standard directories” (L).
> >>               3. The default directories are usually okay.
> >>               4. Press R to return the main menu.
> >>          
> >>          Once those are installed, we can install the remainder of the
> >>          packages with the install-pkgs.sh script. (Note that this
> >>          hasn’t been tested yet and it’s pure guesswork on Kevin’s
> >>          part! Let us know if it does or doesn’t work for you.)
> > If not, then you can do the removal and reinstallation steps again, and
> > it should work.
> >
> > Hope this helps, and have a great weekend.:)
> > Patrick.
> >
> > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:40 +0530, Tejas Kale wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I have recently started as a author for the upcoming manual and will
> >> be writing the 'Viewing and Editing Photos' section. Following the
> >> guidelines on the 'Getting Started as an Author or Editor' page
> >> (http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved/authors), I installed the 2012
> >> version of TexLive. The installation was complete and a 'texlive'
> >> folder of size 3.2GB has been created at the following location:-
> >>
> >> /usr/local/
> >>
> >> But when I execute the command -
> >>
> >> sudo bash install-packages.sh
> >>
> >> I get an error saying
> >>
> >> "Checking TeX Live version...No version of TeX Live was detected."
> >>
> >> If I try executing the 'make' command, I get the following error:-
> >>
> >> "basename: extra operand `frontmatter'
> >> Try `basename --help' for more information.
> >> bzr version-info --custom --template="\\\revinfo{{revno}}{{date}}" >
> >> revision.tex
> >> xelatex --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -V 5" ubuntu-manual
> >> /bin/bash: xelatex: command not found
> >> make: *** [ubuntu-manual.pdf] Error 127"
> >>
> >> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks and regards
> >> Tejas
> >>
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