building LaTeX puppy?

[Dingo]

woof woof to all

recently, after many hours spent unsuccessfully to try install LaTeX on puppy, I have asked to myself: why don't build a LaTex puppy? Is anyone interested to build?

[Marblemike]

I'm all for getting latex going myself - well lyx actually , but I fail to understand what you mean by latex puppy, do you mean a version dedicated to performing all things tex?

Like a latex package manager, collection of frontends, etc?

[Dingo]

I'm all for getting latex going myself - well lyx actually , but I fail to understand what you mean by latex puppy, do you mean a version dedicated to performing all things tex?

Like a latex package manager, collection of frontends, etc?

Yes, exactly.

Because I have spent many hours unsuccessfully trying to install a working LaTeX environment system on puppy, I really like if any smart puppy user or engineer plains to build a derivated version of Puppy with LaTeX system already setted and working

I think also that this pupplet may be have a lot of success

[Marblemike]

Ok, I understand now. I'd like to try - but i've never done anything like this at all though. I do need to find out as I need to make a different puppy of my own with many different features for another project so I think this would be a good opportunity to learn.

I'm keen to try, but as I say, I have little idea of where to start - would you have to do the puppy unleashed thing or compile the source from scratch? I've done the puppy unleashed thing before, but not the full compile of source.

I'm very interested and agree that it would be of use if someone more experienced could provide a guide on how to do it.

[Lobster]

guide:
http://www.puppy-linux.info/en/manual/p ... y.html#a12

[superchook]

I recently came across this Linux Gazette article on the mom macros for use with groff.

http://linuxgazette.net/107/schaffter.html

I've never tried this package but it sounds interesting. The author claims a lot of the functionality of LaTeX from a much smaller package.

cheers,
Ken

[Aitch]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23332

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 7e263ec263

the tailend of this

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... f97d832ec8

It seems there are a lot of dependencies on qt & gtk2, & anomolies between puppy 3.01 & 4

Aitch

[Marblemike]

Thanks for the link Lobster.

I was thinking it would be easiest to get try round the dependencies and get a full blown latex system by converting the complete tetex slackware package http://packages.slackware.it/package.ph ... 3.0-i486-5 to a .pet, but I hear puppy 4.00 isn't fully slackware compliant so this would probably only work on puppy 3.01. Its a big download though, ~50 Mb and I'm running out of bandwidth so need to wait till next month before I can play around.

[vanchutr]

I'd made a squash file for TexLive 2007 for Puppy 4.0 named tex_400.sfs. But I don't know how to upload. If someone need to try it, please give me a link to upload it.
A sample snapshot in rxvt:

[Dingo]

for file up a one gigabyte

http://www.filefront.com/

is a best choice

[muggins]

Another possible repository for files is:


http://www.esnips.com/

They offer 5G of free space.

[Dingo]

Another possible repository for files is:


http://www.esnips.com/

They offer 5G of free space.

yes, but filesize is limited to 100 MB

[vanchutr]

tex_400.sfs 285 M (298430464 bytes) already uploaded on
http://www.filefront.com/
Please download from there
vanchutr

[vanchutr]

After 1h30 filefront's message: Completed... please wait for the redirect
Path of bin file /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux
Be happy
vanchutr

[Aitch]

uploads /a bit aside I know......

there's a few here, though some are deadlinks

http://cacan.blog385.com/index.php/2005 ... -download/

Aitch

[vanchutr]

Link to download tex_400.sfs:
http://files.filefront.com/tex+400sfs/;10808577;/f

[Dingo]

Link to download tex_400.sfs:
http://files.filefront.com/tex+400sfs/;10808577;/f

thanks, downloaded, but How I must use this file?

puppy says to me that is mounted but when I type in console commands like tex, texmaker tetex and so on, it says to me not found

[vanchutr]

You must set path "/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux" before to use this tex_400.sfs
Open the file /etc/profile and add this string "/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux". After that you will have:

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#v3.02 set variables so everything can be found...
PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/root/my-applications/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R7/lib:/root/my-applications/lib"
......

PS: TeX/LaTeX will work with this path. I did'nt to add the path in tex_400.sfs

[vanchutr]

If you like to use Texmaker "tex-editor" you must install it.
For simplicity you can use the built in "geany" editor. The geany editor is good enough to manipulate "tex" source file (with syntax high ligth).
Be happy

[Dingo]

If you like to use Texmaker "tex-editor" you must install it.
For simplicity you can use the built in "geany" editor. The geany editor is good enough to manipulate "tex" source file (with syntax high ligth).
Be happy

do you know how install texmaker in Puppy 4?