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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:04:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>
cc: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>,
        Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>,
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Subject: Re: LaTeX
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Tommy Hallgren wrote:

> Jay D. Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > Get rid of the link in /usr/local/bin and add the teTeX path to $PATH.
> > (/usr/local/teTeX/bin on my machine.) Make sure there are no links to
> > anything having to do with TeX in /usr/local/bin.
> 
> Jay, there is no tex binary at all. And there is no tetex/bin-directory
> neither. For me to get a tex-binary, I have to install the tex-package =
> duplicate installation of some the binaries.
> 
> As far as I can tell, there must be something wrong with the
> tetex-package, it's just not complete. :-( But before I say too much, is
> it the binary called "tex" I need, or is virtex or initex something I
> should use instead? I have those two files at least.
> 
> Mvh: Tommy - I'm not a TeX-guru.
> 

Some basic TeX:

There's no such thing as a TeX binary. TeX is not a binary but a set of 
macros for the TeX virtual machine. virtex *is* the tex virtual machine. 
The same goes for LaTeX, mf, SliTeX and all others TeX derivatives. The 
*only* binary needed to run those is virtex. initex is used to generate a 
binary representation of the macros that make up such a package from the 
source. It is used when installing a TeX application. Also man tex, 
virtex, initex and friends (when you have them working ;-) ).

For your problem - first pkg_delete all the TeX related packages you 
installed, then *manually* remove (or at least rename) anything that 
looks to you as having to do with TeX, and then reinstall the package. I 
haven't installed teTeX lately (last time I installed the package was on 
a 2.1.5R machine) but when I did it was very smooth.

Nadav