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Hi all,
I had a look around. To establish a latex program to slitaz seems possible - not as a feared that it would be simply too large. Sometimes progress in the Free Software World has a kind of frightened speed.
But it would need the help of apted people to get the ready editors run on slitaz:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BeniBela:/texstudio/Debian_6.0/texstudio_2.3.orig.tar.gz
Or a simpler but portable form:
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/texmaker_linux32.tar.gz
This I downloaded and followed the README. But unfortunately it does not run on my slitaz cooking-installation. The console output plus the ldd - report is in the attached file ,,report.texmaker.txt".
(When trying to upload it I got a [denied mime]-error message though the file is in *.txt-format. So I have to paste these outputs below, sorry)
Anybody here who would be able to create a running tazpkg-package out of one of those?
Motivation: TeX is called the best software made ever. The computer scientist Donald Knuth developed it. He was so proud that he promised a reward of ... $ for anybody who would be able to find a mistake in it. Since many years nobody succeeded in finding one. All professional people use LaTeX for profession layouts.
In any school or university environment it is a didactically very nice application as one is forced to structure ones mind as the process of creating a *.ps-, *.dvi- or *.pdf-output is very transparent. It can be done even with the command line only.
tux@slitaz:~/Desktop/texmaker_linux32$ ./texmaker
*** glibc detected *** ./texmaker: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb78933e0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x696d8)[0xb73486d8]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6afbb)[0xb7349fbb]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0xb734d10d]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2(+0x569e)[0xb789969e]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2(+0x7970)[0xb789b970]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2(+0x11d52)[0xb78a5d52]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2(+0xdd39)[0xb78a1d39]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2(+0x11946)[0xb78a5946]
/lib/libdl.so.2(+0xb6b)[0xb7628b6b]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2(+0xdd39)[0xb78a1d39]
/lib/libdl.so.2(+0x127c)[0xb762927c]
/lib/libdl.so.2(dlopen+0x41)[0xb7628c21]
./texmaker[0x996396d]
./texmaker[0x995e404]
./texmaker[0x91281b3]
./texmaker[0x90ae6f3]
./texmaker[0x90af6f0]
./texmaker[0x81f5468]
./texmaker[0x8058b6f]
./texmaker[0x805631d]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb72f5da6]
./texmaker[0x8053e21]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0a297000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 23810 /home/tux/Desktop/texmaker_linux32/texmaker
0a297000-0a366000 r--p 0224e000 00:0d 23810 /home/tux/Desktop/texmaker_linux32/texmaker
0a366000-0a389000 rw-p 0231d000 00:0d 23810 /home/tux/Desktop/texmaker_linux32/texmaker
0a389000-0a425000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
b7000000-b7021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7021000-b7100000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
b712f000-b7131000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15497 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
b7131000-b7132000 r--p 00001000 00:0d 15497 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
b7132000-b7133000 rw-p 00002000 00:0d 15497 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
b7133000-b7172000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15518 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_CTYPE
b7172000-b7173000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15519 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_NUMERIC
b7173000-b7174000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15520 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_TIME
b7174000-b7292000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15521 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_COLLATE
b7292000-b7293000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15522 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MONETARY
b7293000-b7294000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15524 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
b7294000-b7295000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15525 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_PAPER
b7295000-b7296000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15526 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_NAME
b7296000-b7297000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15527 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_ADDRESS
b7297000-b7298000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15528 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_TELEPHONE
b7298000-b7299000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15529 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MEASUREMENT
b7299000-b729a000 r--p 00000000 00:0d 15530 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_IDENTIFICATION
b729a000-b729e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b729e000-b72ba000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15472 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
b72ba000-b72bc000 rw-p 0001c000 00:0d 15472 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
b72bc000-b72c0000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 16148 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
b72c0000-b72c1000 rw-p 00003000 00:0d 16148 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
b72c1000-b72c3000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15670 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
b72c3000-b72c4000 rw-p 00001000 00:0d 15670 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
b72c4000-b72d9000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15413 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0
b72d9000-b72da000 rw-p 00014000 00:0d 15413 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0
b72da000-b72dd000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 10930 /lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0
b72dd000-b72de000 rw-p 00002000 00:0d 10930 /lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0
b72de000-b72df000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b72df000-b741d000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 10940 /lib/libc-2.13.so
b741d000-b741f000 r--p 0013d000 00:0d 10940 /lib/libc-2.13.so
b7420000-b7423000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7423000-b7439000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15584 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7439000-b743a000 rw-p 00016000 00:0d 15584 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b743a000-b745e000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 10907 /lib/libm-2.13.so
b745e000-b745f000 r--p 00023000 00:0d 10907 /lib/libm-2.13.so
b745f000-b7460000 rw-p 00024000 00:0d 10907 /lib/libm-2.13.so
b7460000-b751f000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 16143 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14
b751f000-b7520000 ---p 000bf000 00:0d 16143 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14
b7520000-b7524000 r--p 000bf000 00:0d 16143 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14
b7524000-b7525000 rw-p 000c3000 00:0d 16143 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14
b7525000-b752c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b752c000-b7540000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 10935 /lib/libpthread-2.13.so
b7540000-b7541000 r--p 00014000 00:0d 10935 /lib/libpthread-2.13.so
b7541000-b7542000 rw-p 00015000 00:0d 10935 /lib/libpthread-2.13.so
b7542000-b7545000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7545000-b761b000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15602 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.6
b761b000-b761c000 rw-p 000d5000 00:0d 15602 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.6
b761c000-b7622000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 11556 /lib/librt-2.13.so
b7622000-b7623000 r--p 00006000 00:0d 11556 /lib/librt-2.13.so
b7623000-b7624000 rw-p 00007000 00:0d 11556 /lib/librt-2.13.so
b7624000-b7627000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15879 /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2800.6
b7627000-b7628000 rw-p 00002000 00:0d 15879 /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2800.6
b7628000-b762a000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 10915 /lib/libdl-2.13.so
b762a000-b762b000 r--p 00001000 00:0d 10915 /lib/libdl-2.13.so
b762b000-b762c000 rw-p 00002000 00:0d 10915 /lib/libdl-2.13.so
b762c000-b7724000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15657 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0
b7724000-b7727000 rw-p 000f8000 00:0d 15657 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0
b7727000-b7733000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15531 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
b7733000-b7734000 rw-p 0000b000 00:0d 15531 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
b7734000-b7735000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7735000-b7793000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 16052 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.6.2
b7793000-b7797000 rw-p 0005d000 00:0d 16052 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.6.2
b7797000-b77bd000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15884 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4
b77bd000-b77be000 rw-p 00026000 00:0d 15884 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4
b77be000-b77c5000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15427 /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
b77c5000-b77c6000 rw-p 00006000 00:0d 15427 /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
b77c6000-b77d6000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15533 /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
b77d6000-b77d8000 rw-p 0000f000 00:0d 15533 /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
b77d8000-b77d9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b77d9000-b77de000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15608 /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
b77de000-b77df000 rw-p 00004000 00:0d 15608 /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
b77df000-b77e0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b77e0000-b780f000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 16037 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6
b780f000-b7810000 rw-p 0002e000 00:0d 16037 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6
b7810000-b7811000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7811000-b7856000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 15741 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3.9.5Aborted
tux@slitaz:~/Desktop/texmaker_linux32$ ldd texmaker
texmaker:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7705000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb76f4000)
libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0xb76ad000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb767c000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7675000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7662000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb765a000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7633000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb75d1000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb75c3000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb74c8000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb74c4000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb74c0000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb74b8000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb73e1000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb73c8000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb72fc000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb72d6000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb72bf000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb717b000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb7176000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb7160000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb715d000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7158000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb713a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-2.13.so (0xb7731000)
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On Mandriva 2010.1 it runs with ease. The ldd-output here is:
[michael@localhost texmaker_linux32]$ ldd ./texmaker
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb77cb000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb77b8000)
libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0xb775a000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7716000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb770b000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb76f1000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb76e6000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb76b2000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb762a000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7617000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb74e5000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb74e1000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb74db000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/librt.so.1 (0xb74d2000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb73f8000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0xb73df000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb72ee000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0xb72c8000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb72aa000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb7158000)
libjbig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libjbig.so.1 (0xb714a000)
libjpeg.so.8 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8 (0xb7112000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb6fd1000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb6fb2000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7801000)
libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0xb6f7f000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6f7a000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb6f73000)
But frankly: at this point my ,,ressources" are finished. To digest this information in order to make a tazpkg-package that works is beyond my ability.
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Hi,
0) yeap, I totally agreed with you, Latex is a MUST and should be available for Slitaz,
1) there is a package "get-texlive" available for Slitaz, but it does not work... I did not look deeper, but maybe it is simple to correct it.
2) what about following the following instructions (in french): http://forum.mathematex.net/latex-f6/texlive-2011-t13265.html
Cheers.
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Hu, French I do not understand more than just to buy some bread in France! Sorry!
The texlive-2011 functions apparently, yesterday I stopped my download realizing that it would be a really huge thing.
Until now, within 24 h, I see the following solution:
- one needs a running slitaz tazpkg-package of texmaker or TeXstudio
- this needs a latex-,,Basis" of about 150 MB which one can get at
http://download2.berlios.de/portablelatex/pl-0.2.tgzhttp://download2.berlios.de/portablelatex/pl-0.2.tgz
Then it should run.
Under other established Linux-Distributions LaTeX is not a big thing, as it is incorporated anyway. There is this portable version mentioned above that runs on a modern Mandriva with ease (glibc must be at least 2.9 or higher). The basis of it is ,,texmf", which sits in /usr/share and has about 120 MB.
Too big for any ,,normal" slitaz version, like LibreOffice too, but nothing against MS Office with more than 600 MB. The whole, complete texlive-2011 comes on a DVD! But to be fair: this is a complete professional system set.
My dream is something much more handy, but good enough for students and pupils - and incorporated in Slitaz.
A Slax-based Live-CD from end of 2009, developed at the University of Rome, is available and tonight I will check it (and report here).
In my opinion an ,,App" (a platform-independant .iso-file) is the best form for such a software.
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Just tested 1 hour ago to install Texlive. It took 45 minutes but really smooth. :-)
Download:
[c]tux@slitaz:~$ wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
tux@slitaz:~$ taz xvzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz[/c]
Installation :
[c]tux@slitaz:~$ su
Password:
root@slitaz:~# /home/tux/Downloads/install-tl-20120210/install-tl[/c]
=> answer <I> to install it on hard drive and hit <enter>
And that's it. After 41 minutes, texlive is installed. :-)
Then set your PATH environement variable by editing the file /home/tux/.profile. Add the following line:
[c]PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH[/c]
Finally logout and login. Test it:
[c]tux@slitaz:~$ tex --version[/c]
You should get this answer:
[c]TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2011)
kpathsea version 6.0.1
Copyright 2011 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.
tux@slitaz:~$[/c]
Personnaly, I use (and recommend) the excellent Lyx editor. You can install it:
[c]root@slitaz:~# tazpkg get-install lyx[/c]
Happy Tex Slitaz.
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The slax-based latex-CD I just checked out. 350 MB total, the complete iso. Uses 444 MB RAM when booted, so it runs in the RAM.
This is pure academic bone-dry stuff. One browser: links! One needs one week extra for getting trained on it. The quickest thing I know, admittedly, but not the way any ,,normal" (below 150% nerd content) person would like to use a browser. At a university I could may be tell them: come back when you master that! In a school they would just laugh. Hopeless!
Anyway: it means that it is possible to have a latex-environment on a Live-CD. The concept of Slitaz is quite more slim than Slax which has a KDE 3.5.1-basis normally.
I did not yet try the texlive-2011-version on Slitaz. The installer install-tl-unx.tar.gz-package worked fine but I am not sure whether the space here is enough for this complete thing. Plus: I question that it makes sense to install it. I would prefer to have it as an additional on-its-own-package.
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Have you tried converting the debian lenny packages?
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Once again, I agree with you that a Tex package would be really nice. But I am not able to do it...
If it helps, you can make a Texlive ISO or even a portable USB stick. Chapter 4 in the manual:
http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
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@Trixar_za
Me? No, in the past I had not much success with converting to tazpkg-packages.
@totoetsasour: how big is your /usr/local/texlive-directory?
Here I had stopped it when it amounted to about 550 MB.
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In the meantime I had to look to this:
http://download2.berlios.de/portablelatex/pl-0.2.tgzhttp://download2.berlios.de/portablelatex/pl-0.2.tgz
I decompressed it and mounted it to /mnt/loop. It is 259 MB but in that there is a /usr/l/usr/lib/jre1.6.0_05/ib/jre1.6.0_05/ - installation of 97 MB.
/usr/share/texmf is 120 MB. The complete content is in the attached txt-file ,,inhalt.txt".
Sorry because of this mime-problem the attachment does not work. Anyway, it is the texmf-basis plus java and some extras.
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Huge... 8-(
[c]tux@slitaz:~$ du -sh /usr/local/texlive/
3.1G /usr/local/texlive/
tux@slitaz:~$[/c]
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This is what I was frightened of. Too big, too complete, like this slax-based Live-CD purely academic full stuff. Smaller, but of the same character, is this portablelatex mentioned above. Not useful for even the most elevated school kids.
But the fog gets lighter:
In September 2010 you intended to have Lyx
http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/1740/package-suggestions/p1
and now there is Lyx in cooking. According to here
http://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware
this should mean that a reliable tex-basis must be there.
This I will check out now by installing Lyx on cooking. Stay tuned....
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Yes, I did not give up and installed lyx in cooking - with a big bunch of dependancies: qt, python, perl and and an.
But it does not install any noticeable texmf-basis. At least I could not find any. So after 1 day of trial, error and research a handy package-in-its-own for latexmaker or TeXstudio with it basis is a dream not yet realized.
I write ,,not yet" on purpose. You had asked in September 2010 for Lyx, but not we are 1 1/2 years older, surfing on the wave of progress and success with Slitaz, don't we, guys?
What about tomorrow?
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@totoetsasoeur
As cited above you want lyx in slitaz - and you got it. What are your experinces with it? I ask because I had thought that lyx needs a latex basis in a distribution. But slitaz does not have one. So I installed lyx and tried it with a classical application, the German dinbrief.layout. Here is the console output:
The layout file requested by this document,
dinbrief.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output.
That means: LyX is crippled, does not work - as the basis is missing.
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Yes, that's true you need latex if you want to use Lyx.
I use Lyx for a long time. I use it to make all my documents. I did not try Lyx standalone. I mean, first I installed texlive (as described previously) and a then I installed Lyx.
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Good so, because if you only would install Lyx on cooking, like I did, you would get this error.
@All:
Please have a look here - somebody tried on 14.1.2012 what I now try to do:
http://cook.slitaz.org/undigest/cooker.cgi?pkg=latex
My converts from debian resulted until now in this:
root@slitaz:/home/michael/Desktop# latex --help
latex: error while loading shared libraries: libkpathsea.so.5: cannot open shared object file: Error 20
root@slitaz:/home/michael/Desktop# ldconfig
-sh: ldconfig: not found
No an appellation to the ,,big boys" here: how to resolve such a problem.
I installed all the Debian-converts but if I run ,,du -h /usr/share/tex*" I get a result of only 38,1 MB, but it should be about 120-130 MB. So quite some stuff
root@slitaz:/home/michael/Desktop# ls /usr/bin/tex*
/usr/bin/tex /usr/bin/texi2dvi
/usr/bin/texconfig /usr/bin/texi2pdf
/usr/bin/texconfig-dialog /usr/bin/texindex
/usr/bin/texconfig-sys /usr/bin/texlinks
/usr/bin/texhash /usr/bin/text2gif
/usr/bin/latex is there:
root@slitaz:/home/michael/Desktop# ls -ll /usr/bin/latex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root@slitaz:/home/michael/Desktop# ls -ll /usr/bin/latex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Feb 12 13:15 /usr/bin/latex -> pdftex
root@slitaz:/home/michael/Desktop# ls -ll /usr/bin/pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 647980 Feb 12 14:06 /usr/bin/pdftex
Hmmh...
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Actually I have to stop the idea to get latex running by converting debian-packages to slitaz ones. I run simply into too many dependancies that I cannot resolve. This way won't bring the idea further, at least not with my skills. The converted tazpkg-packages I can keep for a while but this way makes no sense.
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Does anyone thinking of doing a package with R ? (Scientific language programming) , probably the most used in universities !
I do not understand the sentence ,,Does anyone thinking of doing a package with R ? (Scientific language programming) , probably the most used in universities !" - What please is ,,R"?
Now we have Lyx in slitaz-cooking, but though it has a lot of dependancies it is like a car without a motor. The motor would be a TeX/LaTeX-package-in-its-own. This is at least 120-130 MB. For using it with a normal brain one needs an editor, like texmaker, so let us assume about 140 MB.
Just the installation of LyX with its dependancies increases Slitaz cooking from 120 to 363 MB. Add then 140 MB.
Therefore my idea to get that libe LibreOffice as ,,AppRun". But, unfortunately, this is beyond my skills.
But you are right: it is the ticket into the academic world, an incredible text processing system. All advanced math teachers use it; Microsoft did not manage it in so many years to come at par with it.
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R is here : http://www.r-project.org/
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Thank you, arsaber!
Yes, this is quite close to TeX/LaTeX and has a similar ,,philosophy". Some tools like dvi seem to be the same as well.
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There has to be a lighter implementation of TeX. I doubt people would have downloaded something so huge in the early days of the internet... or has it become like emacs which slowly grew huge over time?
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Yes, there are such lighter implementations. I mentioned some. They are about 120-130 MB, but unfortunately ,,incorporated" into some other ,,frames", like the mentioned SLAX Live-CD, which contains nothing else than a kind of (ligt) texlive and jre 1.6. It is called pl.0.2, the URL is above, and was made at the university of Rome.
TeX is a system much bigger than emacs - I mean it may be enlarged to such huge sizes.
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Have you looked at Gummi? I think I'll have a look at it later and how many of LaTeX's libraries it needs...
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Yes, I just had a look. It looks good and handy, not too big. I cannot realize yet where and how they get ,,the motor", the TeX-basis, from.
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