bleg: installing LaTeX in Ubuntu

[gusl]

I've been struggling with making LaTeX work in Ubuntu. When I try to install texlive with apt-get, I get "updmap-sys failed".
The FreeNode channels #latex and #ubuntu are unresponsive.

The output in /tmp/updmap.oIpKzr5c says:

!!! ERROR! The map file `eurosym.map' has not been found at all.
    Either put this file into the right place or remove the
    reference from the configuration files - see
    update-updmap(1).

I do have this file, at /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/dvips/eurosym/eurosym.map but I don't know the right place.

Comments

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing, to get to that point, texlive/LaTeX needs to be successfully installed and runnable?
Or is the complete install failing on that error?

I have LaTeX installed on Hardy, and I don't recall any speed bumps using synaptic.

Other that that error, is LaTeX working or not?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I did previously install pdflatex, by doing apt-get on whatever package comes up when you try to run it and it's not installed... latex came with it too. But the first time I tested pdflatex or latex was now, and I got an error regarding 'ptmr7t', which seems to be related to the fonts not being installed (or not being in the right place).

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

when I type just "latex", I get a shell, so it looks like correct behavior.

but when I do "pdflatex ch-model.tex", it gets this error:

kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t
! I can't find file `ptmr7t'.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t
                                                  
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I also have /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/dvips/eurosym/eurosym.map, so that's correct.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

then the installation is looking for it in the wrong place.

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I have these files:
/usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/alias/times/ptmr7t.htf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr7t.tfm
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/vf/adobe/times/ptmr7t.vf
Which would resolve the mktexmf problem. mktexmf is the program which creates the metafont files.

I found several packages which may have what you're looking for:
1) texlive-font-utils
Programs for conversion between font formats, testing fonts
(virtual fonts stuff, .gf and .pk manipulation,
mft, fontinst, etc.)

2) texlive-fonts-recommended
Recommended fonts
.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
adobeuro -- font metrics for the Adobe Euro fonts.
avantgar -- the URW Avantgar fonts and support for the Adobe font set.
bookman -- the URW Bookman fonts and support for the Adobe font set.
charter -- Charter fonts.
cmextra -- No caption.
courier -- The courier package.
euro -- Arbitrary national currency amounts using the Euro as base unit.
euro-ce -- Euro currency symbol and CE mark.
eurofont -- Provides a command that prints a euro symbol.
eurosans -- Interface to Adobe's free Euro fonts.
eurosym -- No caption.
fpl -- SC and OsF fonts for URW Palladio L
helvetic -- the URW Helvetiva fonts and support for the Adobe font set.
marvosym -- A Type 1 font: Martin Vogels Symbole (marvosym) font.
mathpazo -- Pazo Math fonts and LaTeX package to typeset Palatino.
ncntrsbk -- the URW New Century Schoolbook fonts and support for the Adobe
font set.
palatino -- No caption.
psnfssx -- Extra styles and encodings for PostScript fonts.
pxfonts -- Palatino-like fonts in support of mathematics.
rsfs -- Ralph Smith's Formal Script font.
symbol -- Symbol font.
times -- No caption.
timesnew -- the URW Times fonts and support for the Adobe font set.
txfonts -- Times-like fonts in support of mathematics.
utopia -- Adobe Utopia fonts.
wasy -- The wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts).
wasysym -- LaTeX support file to use the WASY2 fonts
zapfchan -- the URW Zapf Chancery font and support for the Adobe font.
zapfding -- the URW Zapf Dingbat font and support for the Adobe font.


3) texlive-xetex
Macro files for XeTeX, Unicode-enabled TeX by Jonathan Kew.

I hope this helps.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

whenever I try to install ANY of these packages, I get the same error: eurosym.map not found.

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I did a bit of googling, and found a debian bug discussion which had some suggestions at the end of this:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg75199.html

"Could it be that you copied these files (updmap.cfg, fmtutil.cnf)
manually from either /etc/texmf or from /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ to
/usr/share/texmf/web2c?

Anyway, if you remove them or move them to a place they cannot be found,
you should be able to proceed, and either successfully install
teTeX-3.0, or at least get on to the next error."

Looks like something to try.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

hey, so I removed all files and folders matching from /usr/share/tex*, /etc/tex* and /var/lib/tex* .

When I do "sudo apt-get install texlive", or even just "sudo dpkg --configure tex-common", I get the following:

Setting up tex-common (2.06) ...
Error: The new file /usr/share/tex-common/05TeXMF.cnf does not exist!
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

also, I have no idea what it means to "configure" tex-common.

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

You installed texlive with apt-get, but didn't remove the files with apt-get.

You'll want to
sudo apt-get --purge remove
NOTE this is not the regular way to remove a package. It's only the emergency instructions for recovering from a partial manual removal.

then
sudo apt-get install texlive

That should fix things.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

"sudo apt-get --purge remove" throws the same error:

Error: The new file /usr/share/tex-common/05TeXMF.cnf does not exist!
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
 latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

What exactly was the command you ran?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

sudo apt-get --purge remove texlive

previously I also did: sudo apt-get purge texlive

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

You mentioned you had installed pdflatex. Is that still installed?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Good point! It is.

I don't know how to uninstall it, since the package name isn't 'pdflatex'.

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

According to
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=58295 (a thread from 2005)
The set of packages is
tetex-base
tetex-bin
tetex-extra
latex-ucs

My ubuntu (Hardy) system has
texlive-base-bin

One of the things that synaptec has it over apt-get, is the search functions. You can get to synaptic by System: Administration: Synaptic Package Manager

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

"sudo apt-get purge texlive-base-bin" looks really encouraging for a while... until

update-fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/checkrun.EbYCCygX

Then I do:

gusl@gusl-laptop:~$ sudo more /tmp/checkrun.EbYCCygX 
update-fmtutil: cannot read /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf

(not surprising, since /etc/texmf doesn't exist!)

I try a second time, and now it gives:

Error: The new file /usr/share/tex-common/05TeXMF.cnf does not exist!

synaptic

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

When I try to install synaptic, it tries to configure tex-common, and the tex error message appears again.

Re: synaptic

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

update-fmtutil creates or updsates fmtutil.cnf which defines the list of formats to be created.

That it failed, isn't news, as you knew from the start there was a problem with eurosym.map, one of the format files.

So, I wouldn't worry that you can't read the output file (tmp/checkrun.EbYCCygX) for something that was already broken.

Which tex error message?

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

silly cut and paste
it's
sudo apt-get --purge remove texlive

And any other packages you would have installed for TeX.

I suggest taking a look at synaptic, it's much more user friendly than apt-get.