Latex problem [solved]

[gluttony]

hi,

 

I have just installed latex on my computer, but I can't seem to run latex on my files. I have tried directly from the command line and by using the "Tex" tab in Emacs but in both cases the following error is returned:

 

[paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ latex try

bash: latex: command not found

 

 

can you help?

 

thanks very much in advance

[neddie]

First thoughts: either it can't find the executable (which would be strange, because mine is in /usr/bin and it should be able to find that) or it wasn't completely installed. Try the following:

man latex

Does this come up with anything? Or this:

rpm -qa | grep tex

Here it comes up with several tetex packages, including tetex-latex. Typing

latex -version

gives a welcome message here, and

latex filename.tex

produces the dvi file.

It may also help to know - what version of Mandriva have you got, and how did you install latex (from downloaded rpm, from urpmi, from source?)

[gluttony]

thanks for the help :)

 

this is what i get with those commands you suggested:

 

[paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ man latex

No manual entry for latex

 

[paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep tex

perl-Locale-gettext-1.05-1mdk

html2text-1.3.2a-3mdk

texinfo-4.8-1mdk

php-gettext-5.0.4-1mdk

aumix-text-2.8-12mdk

gettext-base-0.14.5-2mdk

 

 

[paulo@hosts-137-205-164-93 ~]$ latex -version

bash: latex: command not found

 

 

this seems to me like it hasn't installed properly....

 

i am running mandriva 2006 and i installed latex from a downloaded iso. I installed it on both my work and home computers and i get the same problem on both.

 

I didn't know you could urpmi latex.... i'll give that a try

 

thanks again

[gluttony]

ok, i removed the installation that i had done from the downloaded iso and installed it by urpmi instead.

everything works now!

 

i guess the rule is "always use urpmi when you can"!

 

thanks for the help

 

paul

[neddie]