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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2011 14:33:35 -0400
From:	Lee Rothstein <lee AT veritech DOT com>
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Subject:	Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?
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I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
even been able to install it successfully.

I admit it, I'm a dolt.

Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?

I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.

Here's some feedback from my last "install attempts":
--
Reinstalled, all of Tex:
* Publishing group, which includes: ec-fonts-mftraced
* Text group, which includes Jadetex
--
Popup window of setup:

Package: ec-fonts-mftraced
     postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh exit code 1
Package: Unknown package
     exim.sh exit code 1
     mined.sh exit code 1
--
isn't 'postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh' misnamed?
--
The following packages have been diagnosed by
'cygcheck -c' as having problems:

   Missing file: /etc/postinstall/postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh from 
package ec-fonts-mftraced
   ec-fonts-mftraced                  1.0.8-4                    Incomplete
   Missing file: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/jadetex.fmt from package jadetex
   Missing file: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.fmt from package jadetex
   jadetex                            3.13-1                     Incomplete
   Missing file: /etc/Muttrc.setupnew from package mutt
   Missing file: /etc/mime.types.setupnew from package mutt
   mutt                               1.5.20-1                   Incomplete
   Missing file: /usr/bin/latex.exe from package tetex-bin
   tetex-bin                          3.0.0-3                    Incomplete

   Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
--
I did notice in latex.log that it references a file:
"latex.aux". Is the file name extension a problem?


Lee

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