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Re: Latex installation problem
- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- To: Dennis Allison <allison at sumeru dot stanford dot edu>
- Cc: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 21:06:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: Latex installation problem
- Organization: Jan at Appel
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10207021000320.2827-100000@sumeru.stanford.EDU>
Dennis Allison <allison@sumeru.stanford.edu> writes:
> Thanks to your comments I have gotten tex/lates working. I had some sort
> of garbled download which confused the automatic selection mechanism. I
> can now get things to work properly. The lost dll for ghostscript has
> been found and fixed by reinstallation there too.
Ok, good to hear.
> I note that the logs for my builds generate
>
> lstat(./mf) not found
> lstat(./latex) not found
Noted.
> messages. Moreover, I end up with dvinnn directorys in my working
> directory. Any thoughts and pointers to what may be causing these
> problems would be appreciated. My guess is that there is a small
> problem with the configuration such that some dynamic link is not
> created.
Hmm. This may have something to do with write access. If you have a
'real-operating-system' version of Windows (nt family), that disallows
you write access under /cygwin or /cygwin/usr, you may try fixing
permissions or installing/running as Administrator, if you dare, and
see if that helps.
Jan.
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