[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 15:47:30 CET 2009


On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> >> > [nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich
> >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2009-01-27 14:47 /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich ->
> >> > /usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich
> >> >
> >> > Yup, that's the correct kpsewhich.  Why doesn't it work?
> >>
> >> You have to remove the link /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich.
> >> The place of kpsewhich:
> >> /usr/share/texlive-2008/bin/x86_64-linux/
> >> is important.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Akira
> >
> > So are you saying that the symlink option that tlinstall offered and I
> > used doesn't actually work?  I have to put the binaries into my path?
>
> I have seen a lot of weird errors caused by clashes between TL and
> residues of teTeX. These clashes are distro dependent and some
> incomplete version of teTeX is installed due to dependencies even if
> you select not to install it. The safest way is to put the bin path of
> TL to the beginning of your PATH as suggested at the end of
> installation.

If symlinks don't work reliably I suggest adding a warning to tlinstall, or 
just deprecate them completely.



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