Hi everybody, Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more noooobie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-beginner doc. Following http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation and beginning of http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/QuickInstall, i've : dwld * tetex-src.tar.gz & tetex-texmf.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist SHIT HAPPENS HERE : it's like i'm missing some basic commands, because if I type what next, term conplains : gzip -dc tetex-texmf.tar.gz \| (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist; tar xvf -) My guess is cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist sudo tar xvf /home/olivier/dl/tetex-texmf.tar.gz sudo tar xvf /home/olivier/dl/tetex-src.tar.gz cd tetex-src-3.0/ sudo bash (if not, term complains about configure.log) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/teTeX >& configure.log make world >& world.log (quite long) exit (from root) cd ~ sudo vim .bash_profile add to it : PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH; export PATH texexec --version : not working, so PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH; export PATH texexec --version TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.01.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.12.2 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds texconfig conf =========================== version information ========================== teTeX-src release: 3.0 teTeX-texmf release: 3.0 ==================== binaries found by searching $PATH =================== PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games kpsewhich: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/kpsewhich updmap: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/updmap fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/fmtutil texconfig: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texconfig tex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex pdfetex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pdfetex mktexpk: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/mktexpk dvips: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/dvips dvipdfm: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/dvipdfm =========================== active config files ========================== /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/dvipdfm/config/config /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktex.cnf /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf XDvi: not found ============================= font map files ============================= psfonts.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.mappdftex.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map ps2pk.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map dvipdfm.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map =========================== kpathsea variables =========================== TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf TEXMFDIST=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local TEXMFSYSVAR=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config TEXMFVAR=/home/olivier/.texmf-var TEXMFCONFIG=/home/olivier/.texmf-config TEXMFHOME=/home/olivier/texmf VARTEXFONTS=/var/tmp/texfonts TEXMF={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist} SYSTEXMF=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist TEXMFDBS={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}:/var/tmp/texfonts WEB2C={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/web2c TEXPSHEADERS=.:{!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type3}}// TEXCONFIG={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/dvips// ENCFONTS=.:{!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/enc// TEXFONTMAPS=.:{!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/map// ==== kpathsea variables (from environment only; ok if no output here) ==== kpsewhich texmf.cnf /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Thanks for reading -- olivier TURLIER CRP La Rouguière 101 Bd des Libérateurs - 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