olivier Turlier wrote:
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 -)
I think I've solved this: I just realized you have \| here, where it should have been just a |, without backslash. The backslash on the line above it in the quickinstall is there to "hide" the newline that follows it from the shell (look up 'backslash' in bash-s man page) Cheers, Taco