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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:00:57 -0700
From: Dennis Allison <allison AT sumeru DOT stanford DOT EDU>
Message-Id: <200207011400.HAA32421@sumeru.stanford.EDU>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, janneke AT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: Latex installation problem


Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> wrote:

> Dennis Allison <allison AT sumeru DOT stanford DOT EDU> writes:
> 
> > I've spent the better part of the morning trying to get latex and tex to work
> > on a vanilla binary download to a Win2000 machine.
> 
> What packages did you install?  Did you select and install texmf-tine
> or texmf-tiny too?  Please rerun setup.exe and make sure to install
> one of these.
> 
I installed the complete set of cygwin packages.  The problem I am having
seems to be related to the fact that the teTex/texmf shipped with cygwin
is not configured to run out-of-the-box.

The installation procedure appears to require copying the various cfg 
files ("frozen" in /usr/share/.../web2c) and then running texconfig 
with various parameters.   The documentation I was able to find is 
out-dated and refers primarily to an earlier distribution approach.

My goal here is to get a latex2e system working.  The closest I have
gotten so far is a report from TeX saying it cannot find latex.fmt
and/or some metafont components.  Somewhere in the configuation process
I am missing something.

-d



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