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From: | Jim Busser |
Subject: | [Gnumed-devel] pdflatex and dependencies was Re: [Gnumed-bugs] <bug>: Trying to print the basic medication form |
Date: | Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:58:13 -0800 |
On 2009-12-30, at 5:06 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
1) the apt-cache command allows you to search through both descriptions and package names... the listing is no guarantee of which package provides a certain binary 2) the command pdflatex exists in my system, despite my not having texlive-latex-extra installed 3) my difficulty locating the source package for the pdflatex "binary" (command) may be explained by pdflatex not being a binary in its own right but rather a virtual (?) binary... wikipedia says: LaTex is simply a macro package for Tex … [h]ence, pdflatex, for example, calls the pdfTeX program using the standard LaTeX macros a CTAN site document ifpdf.pdf says: … many TEX distributions replace the traditional TEX binary with pdfTEX. Then, for example, called as latex pdfTEX works in DVI mode with the LATEX format preloaded, called as pdflatex pdfTEX starts in PDF mode. and a "how to install PDFLaTex binary" tips site indicates you do it by getting pdftex and among the subsequent terminal installation lines appears: pdfinitex pdflatex.ini Links: ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ifpdf.pdf http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk/bjc97r/tips/latex-install.html
It seems that only texlive-base-bin is the dependency (which already appears in my desktop install of Lenny unless some additional package caused it to be installed). That is, *unless* we identify that gnumed 0.6 (medication list printing) won't work without *also* depending on texlive-latex-extra but do you *actually* have this installed, or is it just appearing in your apt-cache?
when I do pdflatex --version I get the same output as did you did on all lines but the last three:
I get Compiled with libpng 1.2.27; using libpng 1.2.27 Compiled with zlib 1.2.3.3; using zlib 1.2.3.3 Compiled with libpoppler version 3.00 presumably because my VM is Lenny (stable), with gnumed and some python dependencies from testing but I am not sure the minor upgrades would have anything to do with anything… my libpoppler3 is already newest (unless at issue is libpoppler-qt2 or -glib3) and I did since upgrade libpng12-0 and zlib1g (testing) and I also do now have virtual printing in my Debian VM (on my Mac), and have printed successfully to my home printer a screenshot (opened in Eye of GNOME 2.22.3) and still I get the unhandled exception. Unless the above really were a factor, and will not be fixed unless after pdflatex is recompiled (??). So Karsten if you did in fact already install texlive-latex-extra I can try installing it, too and try again (though it might be nice to be isolate why we depend on it). If that is not the solution, will an apt-get uninstall and apt-get (re) install of texlive-base-bin cause its components to get recompiled, or will I need some other method to recompile pdflatex? |
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