Re: Installation on powerpc/Linux

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:02:52AM +0200, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to install teTeX on a G4 Powermac running Linux 
> (Mandrakelinux 10.1). I already tried the TexLive distribution, but 
> there are no binaries for this platform and compiling failed. I then 
> switched to teTex, hoping for better luck. But building from source 
> again didn't work.
>...
> 2. Running "make world" ended with the following error messages:
> 
> fontdef.o loadfont.o dvips.o tfmload.o download.o prescan.o scanpage.o 
> skippage.o output.o scalewidth.o dosection.o dopage.o resident.o 
> search.o unpack.o drawPS.o header.o repack.o virtualfont.o dpicheck.o 
> finclude.o writet1.o pprescan.o papersiz.o color.o bbox.o hps.o 
> t1part.o  ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm
> gcc -o dvips dospecial.o dviinput.o emspecial.o fontdef.o loadfont.o 
> dvips.o tfmload.o download.o prescan.o scanpage.o skippage.o output.o 
> scalewidth.o dosection.o dopage.o resident.o search.o unpack.o drawPS.o 
> header.o repack.o virtualfont.o dpicheck.o finclude.o writet1.o 
> pprescan.o papersiz.o color.o bbox.o hps.o t1part.o  
> ../kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.a -lm
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -DUNIX -DKPATHSEA 
> -DNeedFunctionPrototypes -DSHIFTLOWCHARS  -g -O2  -c squeeze.c
> gcc -o squeeze   squeeze.o
> ./squeeze <tex.lpro >t-tex.pro
> mv t-tex.pro tex.pro
> ./squeeze <texps.lpro >t-texps.pro
> mv t-texps.pro texps.pro
> /bin/sh ./texc.script ./tex.lpro texc.lpro
> ./texc.script: line 7: ed: command not found
>...

The solution is simple:
Install the package "ed".

cu
Adrian

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