Re: Post installation configuration

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:02:05 +0200
Christoph Bartoschek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I got responsible for our TeX installation and have several questions:
> 
> 1. I am confused about the post installation configuration. I've just 
> installed teTeX 3.0 as described in INSTALL without problems. But what
> to do now?
> 
Maybe an example would be helpful.

I found that Tetex works as installed. I'm using Tetex 2 on Slackware
10.  But some things can be changed according to personal preferrences. 
Assuming that Tetex 3 hasn't changed too much from Tetex 2, here is an
example of changes that I make on a single user system.  The comments in
the configuration file "texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf" are very helpful. My idea
is to keep my local changes and additions from modifying the original
Tetex installation.

As superuser, add directories
        /usr/share/texmf-var
        /usr/share/texmf-local
and chown them to "mike.users"


As superuser, edit texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

1) keep the default lines
        TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf
        TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-local
2) uncomment the line
        VARTEXMF = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-var
3) comment the line
        % HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf
4) comment the default TEXMF definition and add the line
        TEXMF = {$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}


As user mike, run
        $ texconfig
texconfig first updates texmf-var and then puts up a menu.
Look through the various entries to see what's there.
  - choose default MODE as "ljfour HP Laserjet 4 (600dpi)"
  - XDVI choose
        paper size "us"
        mode  "ljfour"
  - DVIPS choose "GLOBAL" and then
        papersize "letter  8.5in 11in"
        MODE  "ljfour"
        CMD - press enter with an empty line to set output to file.
  - PDFTEX 
        PAPER "letter  8.5in 11in"
        mode  "ljfour"
exit texconfig.

Configure xdvi
Edit file: /usr/share/texmf-var/xdvi/XDvi
   Change the various shrink factors to suit my display.

Install packages that I use that are not in TeTeX.
   For example RevTeX4.
   As in the instructions that come with the download
   for RevTeX4, copy 7 files to texmf-local/tex/latex/revtex4/
   and copy 2 files to texmf-local/bibtex/bst/revtex4/
   Update the filename database using 
        texconfig -> REHASH 
        or from the command line with 
            $ texhash /usr/share/texmf-local



Mike
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