[tex-live] Symbolic linking fails

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Christian Lasarczyk wrote:

> Hi all,
> I tried to install TeXLive 2005 from "texlive2005-inst-20051102.iso",but
> for some reasons linking fails:
>
>From the list below I suspect that you do not install TL as root. Symlinks
are created in directories which are not writable for normal users.

> Unpacking zip files for packages...
> ..........................................................................................................warning:
>  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/lamed) failed
> .warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/altpdfamstex) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/amstex) failed
> ....warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/fdf2tan) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/fdf2tex) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/makempy) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/mptopdf) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texfind) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texfont) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texshow) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (bin/i386-linux/texutil) failed
> ..warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/ctangle.1) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/cweave.1) failed
> .......warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/dvilj2p.1) failed
> warning:  symbolic link (texmf/doc/man/man1/dvilj4.1) failed
> .
> .
> .
>
>
> And indeed for example pdflatex is just an ASCII-File containing
> "pdfetex" (without LF):
>
> lasar at mixit:lasar 53 % ll
> /export/home1/lasar/texlive2005/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex
> -rw-r--r--  1 lasar ls11 7 2005-11-25 16:22
> /export/home1/lasar/texlive2005/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex
> lasar at mixit:lasar 54 % cat
> /export/home1/lasar/texlive2005/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex
> pdfetexlasar at mixit:lasar 55 %
>
> System is latest stable Debian, file system type ist ext3. TeXLive
> 2003+2004 run fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>    Christian
>
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Zdenek Wagner
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