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[Tino Schieber <tino_schieber@xxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Patrick,

thank you for your help. Perhaps, this way of upgrading my
TeX-Installation seems a bit complicated and unsafe for me. I think, I
should try the path over the usage of the ppa.

Nevertheless, thank you

Tino



Am 25.08.2012 03:14, schrieb Patrick Dickey:
> If I remember correctly (and I'm sure Kevin, John, or someone else
> will correct this), the ubuntu repository version isn't the full
> version (or at least doesn't have some of the needed features).
> Here is the code to a bash script that *should* take care of the
> installation for you.  It's assuming that you put the manual in
> /home/username/Projects/ and will prompt you for the location of
> the TexLive installer (you need to download it manually first), so
> you'll have to change the paths as needed.  Here's the link to the
> latest version of TexLive 
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
> 
> ----------------- begin copy here ------------------------- #!
> /bin/bash
> 
> # This script contains the final steps in the preparation of your #
> computer for the Ubuntu Manual Project (English version). Please
> make # the necessary changes for your localized version before
> running the # script.
> 
> echo echo "Now we are at the Installing TeX Live 2010 (or current
> version) point" echo echo "The Ubuntu Manual requires TeX Live 2009
> or later. The version of TeX Live in the Ubuntu 9.10 repositories
> is 2007. In Ubuntu 10.04 or later, there are packages for the
> current version TeX Live, but they are not new enough. You must use
> the upstream version of TeX Live to compile the manual
> successfully." echo echo "First, we will remove any Ubuntu TeX Live
> packages, if you have them installed. This will remove all previous
> versions of TeX-Live using rm-- as well as any installed through
> apt-get."
> 
> sudo apt-get remove texlive-* sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive sudo
> rm -rf ~/.texlive*
> 
> echo echo "Please enter the location where your TeX Live Installer
> is located, in the format of /path/to/tarball (~/Downloads for
> example). NOTE*** You must type out the entire pathname for example
> /home/username/Downloads instead of ~/Downloads" read LOCATION
> 
> cd $LOCATION echo echo "Now we will unpack the tarball:"
> 
> tar xvf install-tl-unx.tar.gz echo echo "Then change to the
> newly-unpacked directory:"
> 
> cd install-tl-* echo echo "And finally run the script:" echo echo
> "When the script runs, please select any options you prefer before 
> you press \"I\". If you choose not to install everything, the
> minimum that you’ll need is the following collections:" echo "1.
> Essential programs and files (a)" echo "2. LaTeX recommended
> packages (s)" echo "3. XeTeX packages (C)" echo "4. We highly
> recommend enabling the "create symlinks to standard directories"
> option." echo echo "Under the language collections, you can skip
> all the documentation, but be sure to install all the languages you
> wish to translate into. (If the language you wish to translate into
> isn’t listed in the menu, don’t worry, there are just no specific
> packages required for that language.)  The default is to install
> everything."
> 
> echo "When you've selected the options you want, press 'I' to start
> the installation. Note, that it will take some time to install."
> 
> echo read -s -n1 -p "Press any key to start the installation, when
> you're ready." PROMPTKEY
> 
> sudo ./install-tl
> 
> echo "Now, 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.)" cd ${HOME}/Projects/ubuntu-manual/pkgs 
> ./install-pkgs.sh echo echo "If everything checked out okay, you
> should be able to run: \"make ubuntu-manual-LANG.pdf\" where LANG
> is the language code (see the po/ directory for a list of supported
> languages). You will need to type \"cd ~/Projects/ubuntu-manual\"
> to get into the correct directory for making the manual.  Thank
> you."
> 
> exit
> 
> 
> ---------------------end copy here -------------------------
> 
> When you copy and paste it, make sure that the word wrap is
> removed. If the lines are not inside of ""'s, then it should be on
> one line.
> 
> Also this hasn't been tested in Precise. I wrote it during the
> Maverick compilation and tested it there.  It's the commands from
> the author's page without all of the extra information that is
> provided there. So you'll want to compare the commands here to the
> commands on that page.
> 
> Hope this helps, and have a great day:) Patrick.
> 
> P.S. I do have the complete script for prepping your computer
> (every command needed from the authors page) if anyone wants that.
> I can post it in an email to the group (or add it as an attachment
> to one). Be warned though that it's long and has a lot of echo
> statements in it. I'm a believer in making sure you know exactly
> what's happening at each step of the way (as the short snippet
> above shows).
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 02:43 +0200, Tino Schieber wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to contribute to the project. My effort would be to 
>> improve the german version. I have a strong eye on typographical
>> issues.
>> 
>> I’ve got the following message after running install-pkgs.sh:
>> 
>>> sh install-pkgs.sh Checking TeX Live version...Status: install
>>> ok installed Status: install ok installed Version: 2009-11 -ne
>>> \E[33m TeX Live 2009 Ubuntu packages detected. It appears that
>>> you have TeX Live installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
>>> Unfortunately, you can not compile the Ubuntu Manual with TeX
>>> Live from the Ubuntu repositories.  Please remove the TeX Live
>>> packages and install TeX Live 2011 from upstream.  See the
>>> Ubuntu Manual website for instructions:
>>> 
>>> http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved/authors#install-texlive
>> 
>> 
>> Now, my problem is, that I actually just have installed TeX Live
>> 2009 out of the repositories. I’m using Linux Mint 11 (Katya). Is
>> it necessary to install TeX Live 2011 manually or are there other
>> ways?
>> 
>> Thank for your opinion.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Tino
>> 
>> 
>> 
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