Hello,

I installed latex (tetex-base, I think was what I asked it to install) from the Debian Etch repository, and then texmaker as a front end (I like Kile but it wanted to replace a lot of KDE so I left it).

I really only checked in a rush: can't remember exactly how smoothly it went.  I think it compiled my tex file (revtex-type article) as a pdf OK, which was encouraging, but I think it balked at running ordinary latex.  Also no dvi viewer as I hadn't installed one; stuff I will possibly look into but thus far haven't had time.  I figure the situation is encouraging but there's some tweaking to do (as there almost always is when setting latex and company up on a new computer).

Texmaker doesn't let me shrink the window enough vertically to fit on the screen, but if I make it fullscreen it snaps to the edges.

Hope that helps,
chris

I installed LyX and texmaker. Both installed fine using only the xandros repositories (setup exactly as described in the Wiki). Also tried Kile, but it wouldn't install from the xandros repositories and I didn't want to mess around with the Debian repos since Kile is so integrated with kde and I didn't want to break anything. Texmaker seems to be a decent alternative to Kile anyway.

Howto is straight forward: worked
Follow Wiki for adding Xandros Repos: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos
in terminal type:
sudo apt-get install lyx
sudo apt-get install texmaker

@egghead: I never used Winedt, but I think texmaker is pretty similar.

After I saw that latex is possible, I put my order in for an 8G one - I am so excited to get this!

Has anyone installed beamer (the latex presentation package) and does it work?

I'll build a wiki for it, If you tell me more or less what you want.

I tried to install LaTeX on my machine, and it seemed to go without a hitch.  However, now whenever I try to launch texmaker, it pops up, gives me a hourglass for a while, then shuts down without error.  When I try to run it from command line, I get: "segmentation fault".

The only error I get at all is:

W: GPG error: http://xnv4.xandros.com etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not avaliable: NO_PUBKEY -- Key Is Here.  I hid for my security --

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems.

However, I get the same error when I run apt-get update.

Any thoughts?

dbilar wrote:

After I saw that latex is possible, I put my order in for an 8G one - I am so excited to get this!

Has anyone installed beamer (the latex presentation package) and does it work?

Yes it works.

This is related to a Ubuntu install on a Dell Inspiron.

I am waiting for a 8GC eee and then I also will install Latex/tex Texmaker

I installed TexMaker, but I keep getting the "Log File not found !" error, although I have saved my document correctly with the .tex extension and the paths to the commands are set... Anyone having the same problem?

Kile would also be an option for me, but the installation did not work out, as already mentioned by other users.

Cheers, Seth

HeinzT wrote:

With some help from a Linux expert I managed to get the complete TeXLive distribution working "on" my 4 GB eee PC.

Can you please confirm that you have the default Xandros Linux on your EEE PC?

Here is my negative experince with  texlive:
In  the default Xandros Linux, I have add new repositories as explained in http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos

Then I run
> sudo apt-get install texlive.
Unfortunately, it did not install properly. For example, If I run
> sudo tex –version
it does show something like
“TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
kpathsea version 3.5.5”

But the installation has not created a file or command “latex”. So if run
which latex
it returns empty string


I can confirm that  tetex installs ok as follows:
> sudo apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra


Overall, I am now looking at switching  from the default Xandros Linux  to  eeeXubuntu. I hope that  eeeXubuntu is friendly to texlive and Kile while  the default Xandros is definitely not

Last edited by rybshik (2008-03-07 5:32:09 pm)

i installed latex on the default xandros, took 100MB approx, works like a charm

I use texmaker, which is fine, should work better on the 10'' EEEPC, I skipped on kile, it wanted basically to replace 100 of packages

rybshik wrote:

Can you please confirm that you have the default Xandros Linux on your EEE PC?

Here is my negative experince with  texlive:
In  the default Xandros Linux, I have add new repositories as explained in http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos

Then I run
> sudo apt-get install texlive.
Unfortunately, it did not install properly.

Yes, indeed, I'm using the default Xandros Linux as I wanted to follow a "minimally invasive" strategy. That's why I did NOT try any "apt-get install" command but just followed the instructions of the TeXLive distribution [Section 3.1  Running TEX Live directly from media (Unix)] employing the command

> sh install-tl.sh

etc.

The trick was to make a reliable copy of the TeXLive DVD to the stick (couldn't do that with Windows XP which did not copy symbolic links etc. - so my buddy used his Linux laptop).

Your command above does not seem to be recommended in the TeXLive instructions. So why use it?

Hope this helps,

Tom

rybshik wrote:

To me (Linux newbie), the command
> sh install-tl.sh
looks no less  invasive than "apt-get install"

:-)

Sure, you're right - in principle. But the whole point is that I'm running Latex "live" from the mounted stick, not from the eee PC. Your command was meant to install TexLive to disk.

According to the TeXLive documentation "even in this case [running live from media such as USB stick], we must choose a directory on the local disk to place files that the TeX system itself generates, such as fonts and formats, and also to provide a place for updated configuration files, if need be."

That's what "sh install-tl.sh" (from the media mounting point) does. The resulting directory on the local disk is /opt/texlive2007 and occupies about 3 MB if I've counted correctly...

There's really all necessary info in the TeXLive documentation (see link in previous posting). I'm not a Linux expert either, but could find my way following the instructions there (although it took a while)...

For me it was worth the effort because I wanted full LaTeX functionality. I need to be able to give my presentations using beamer style, and finally it works - and very well so.

Cheers,

Tom

rybshik wrote:

Does beamer style work with Tetex?
I have not yet used  beamer, but heard that it generates PFD directly or something like that. So I guess beamer needs up-to-date facility for latex-> PDF conversion. What do you think?

Not sure about teTeX: the teTeX homepage (http://www.tug.org/tetex/) says that the person responsible has "decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live project."

But I guess it will still support pre-2007 versions of beamer.

I'm just running pdflatex from a shell console, e.g.

> pdflatex beamerfile.tex

where of course beamerfile.tex utilises the beamer style packages and commands.

Tom