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Obsolete Releases => SME 7.x Contribs => Topic started by: LANMonkey on March 10, 2009, 10:40:02 PM

Title: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: LANMonkey on March 10, 2009, 10:40:02 PM

I am trying to install tetex-latex following this post I saw on the subject of installing LaTeX:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,31053.0.html

I am trying to install a plugin for WordPress called WP LaTeX:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-latex/faq/

This plugin requires also that dvipng be installed.  Is it installed with yum?  I have already installed tetex-latex according to the thread above:

"yum --enablerepo=base install tetex-latex"

It seemed to work.  I did the two signal-events for post-upgrade and reboot.  But I haven't tested it independent of WordPress's new plugin and the plugin doesn't work yet.

Is dvipng installed?
If dvipng is not installed, how do I do that?
How do I test my yum tetex-latex installation?

Title: Re: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: cactus on March 10, 2009, 11:06:36 PM

AFAIK (as well as rpm.pbone.net which is an authority on package existence and locations) dvipng is only available for RHEL5/CentOS5 which means SME Server 8. EL5/CentOS5 packages are not suitable to install on SME Server 7.x as they are incompatible.

Title: Re: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: cactus on March 10, 2009, 11:07:39 PM

Quote from: LANMonkey on March 10, 2009, 10:40:02 PM

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yum --enablerepo=base install tetex-latex

Since the base repository should be enabled by default this would have done as well:

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yum install tetex-latex
What is your goal? Perhaps there are other methods that might work on SME Server 7.x for you.

Title: Re: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 10, 2009, 11:49:28 PM

Quote from: LANMonkey on March 10, 2009, 10:40:02 PM

Is dvipng installed?

"rpm -q dvipng" will tell you.

Your post is off-topic for this forum, which concerns only software included in the base SME server install.

IMO you really should become much more familiar with working with linux, using standard tutorials, before you start to make substantial modifications to SME server.

Title: Re: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: chris burnat on March 11, 2009, 12:10:25 AM

Moving to Contribution section.

Title: Re: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: LANMonkey on March 11, 2009, 04:13:25 PM

Quote from: CharlieBrady on March 10, 2009, 11:49:28 PM

"rpm -q dvipng" will tell you.

Your post is off-topic for this forum, which concerns only software included in the base SME server install.

IMO you really should become much more familiar with working with linux, using standard tutorials, before you start to make substantial modifications to SME server.

I'll represent myself as pretty familiar with Linux.  I don't think the differences between the various distributions is easy enough to discern in order to qualify as being simply familiar with Linux. 

Sorry to be off topic.

Title: Re: Installing tetex-latex, is dvipng installed?
Post by: LANMonkey on March 16, 2009, 07:33:03 PM

Quote from: cactus on March 10, 2009, 11:06:36 PM

AFAIK (as well as rpm.pbone.net which is an authority on package existence and locations) dvipng is only available for RHEL5/CentOS5 which means SME Server 8. EL5/CentOS5 packages are not suitable to install on SME Server 7.x as they are incompatible.

I am running SME 8 Beta and I am registered with rpm.pbone.net.  I have installed their pbone.repo file in my yum.repos.d directory.  If I apply "yum (enablerepo=base) install dvipng", it still can't find it.  Do you have any clues as to how to get and install dvipng in my system?