in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 3/27/12, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 4:23 PM
> @all who have tried to install kerTeX
> and have failed, what is needed?
> 
> 1) make sure that "Development Tools" is installed, if it is
> not then, as root user
> # yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
> 
> 2) install flex-static, flex and bison are installed but
> libl.a, or libfl.a are not in /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib64 and
> are not found, ./get_mk_install.sh will fail with report
> that it is missing:
> 
> for 32 bit fedora 
> =========================================
> rkconfig:  Checking LEXLIB: not found!
> rkconfig:  There were 1 libes not found! Stop!
> rkconfig:
> rkconfig:  LEXLIB is missing:
> rkconfig:
> LEXLIB
>        The library provided by the
> LEX program, `libl' or `libfl' if `flex'
>        is installed and the symlink
> libl.a has not been made to libfl.a
> 
> =========================================
> 
> for 64 bit fedora 
> =========================================
> rkconfig:  Checking LEXLIB: not found!
> rkconfig:  There were 1 libes not found! Stop!
> rkconfig:
> rkconfig:  LEXLIB is missing:
> rkconfig:
> LEXLIB
>        The library provided by the
> LEX program, `libl' or `libfl' if `flex'
>        is installed and the symlink
> libl.a has not been made to libfl.a
> =========================================
> # yum install flex-static 
> 
> solves this problem so make sure it is installed before you
> run the script.
> 
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/get_mk_install.sh
> 
> The script runs as regular user, there is no need to run it
> as root.  
> 
> $ chmod +x get_mk_install.sh
> 
> then you may download the rest of the packages available
> 
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/amstex.sh
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/latex.sh
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/graphics@latex.sh
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/babel@latex.sh
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/cyrillic@latex.sh
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/ams@latex.sh
> $ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/cracs@latex.sh
> $ chmod +x *.sh
> 
> then run 
> $ ./amstex.sh install
> will install amstex
> $ ./latex.sh install
> will install latex 
> $ ./graphics at latex.sh
> 
> will install graphics capabilities for latex
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Paths will need to be added manually to ~/.bash_profile for
> the shell to find tex in case you take the initiative to
> install it.  It can comfortable live with texlive, and
> tetex in that it does not aim to take over as the main tex
> distribution.  
> 
> dvipdfm, pdftex, pdflatex are not found in KerTeX.  But
> dvips is present and outputs to postcript.  AMSLatex
> was recently added as a package.  It is a small and
> portable TeX Distribution.  
> 
> To include graphics in latex documents, use
> \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
> 
> In case you run into trouble with fonts/font generation when
> using -G option in dvips
> $ dvips -G -t letter $1.dvi > $1.ps 
> 
> then, as root user
> # echo ';ams;' > /usr/local/share/kertex/fonts/mf/KXPATH
> 
> 
> as it has this bug.  It will be fixed shortly.  
> 
> Should you take the plunge to try out kerTeX, and have
> questions, comments, observations, please let me know so I
> can help if needed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Antonio 
> -- 

Forgot about something :(

when getting the packages, ./latex.sh, /amstex.sh, etc.  

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[students at localhost kerTeX]$ ./graphics at latex.sh install

KERTEX_VERSION=0.9999.3.0
KERTEX_HOST=linux-x86_64-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64
KERTEX_SHELL=/bin/sh
KERTEX_BINDIR=/usr/local/bin/kertex
KERTEX_LIBDIR=/usr/local/share/kertex
KERTEX_MANDIR=/usr/local/share/kertex/man
KERTEX_USER0=root
KERTEX_GROUP0=wheel

graphics at latex.sh:  latex: FOUND.
cd: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted
This is TeX, kerTeX C Version 3.1415926
! I can't find file `graphics.ins'.
<*> &latex graphics.ins

Please type another input file name:

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To solve this:  
cd: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted

Run from command line 
$ cat >~/.lftp/rc <<EOT
> set ssl:verify-certificate no
> EOT
$  

and retry the installation of the packages.  I knew I forgot something.  

Happy TeXing & LaTeXing

Regards,

Antonio