Re: outdated koma-script in Debian teTeX

Sebastian,

* Sebastian Luque <[email protected]> [2005-Jun-29 17:27 AKDT]:
> I think that the koma-script package shipped with the Debian version 
> of teTeX is quite outdated.

The current version is 3.0, Debian sid has 2.0.2.  One way to get the 
latest version is to install it from the 'experimental' distribution.  
You'd need a like like:

    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib

in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Then you can do:

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra -t experimental

> I'd like to install this version instead. The problem I'm foreseeing 
> though is that other packages I have installed depend on Debian
> teTeX (AUCTeX for instance). Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be
> most welcome.

What I did instead of the 'experimental' binary install mentioned above 
was to build teTeX-3.0 myself, and keep the Debian 'sid' packages 
installed for the other packages for which it is a dependency.  I 
installed the new teTeX in /usr/local/teTeX/, and modified a few 
environment variables:

    export PATH="/usr/local/teTeX/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu: (etc)
    # Add local TeX files
    export TEXINPUTS=":~/tex/macros:~/latex/styles:~/latex/classes"
    export TEXDOCVIEW_pdf="/usr/bin/xpdf %s"
    export TEXDOCVIEW_ps="/usr/bin/gv %s"
    export TEXDOCVIEW_html="/usr/bin/firefox %s"

If you've installed any fonts into your own tex directories, you'll 
probably need to reinstall them, or move some of the directories around.  
The new directory scheme is slightly different from the old one.  Map 
and encoding files go into a different place.

Anyway, I haven't had any trouble so far with a source-built teTeX 3.0 
coexisting with the Debian sid binaries for 2.0.2.

Although outside the scope of this list, there are Debian packages for 
TeXlive, which is apparently another well supported TeX distribution.  
In this week's Debian Weekly News it was mentioned that TeXlive may be 
officially packaged as an alternative to tetex because TeXlive is more 
modular (according to the article).

Chris
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Christopher S. Swingley          email: [email protected]
Intl. Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks   www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/