deskthority

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 18:03**

This whole linux thing is driving me nuts ! For every single easy step I have to google hours to get a (rather frustrating) result

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Now I am trying to make a Nassi–Shneiderman diagram with Gummi (laggy, buggy but close to real time pdf creation) and I don't get how or where I have to put in the xyling.sty package. I tried to put it into /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xyling/ and /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xyling/ but still the program throws out a error that the xyling pakacke is missing

Where do I have to put in the packages?? Why do I have 2 texmf folders ?

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 18:09**

Shouldn't this be in the "Other Languages" subforum?

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 18:30**

Have you tried ~/.texmf/tex/latex/xyling?

I think you can put it in your document root as well!

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 19:08**

File permissions or security context?

Try
ls -l
and
ls --lcontext

in the directories where you found xyling.sty

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 19:31**

I have changed the package to nassi (nassflow) now and copied them to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/nassflow/ as root user.
ls -l shows this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5027 2012-01-09 19:03 nassi.sty

I found the problem I think: I should not jerk around as root. I need to install them either somewhere else or in a different way. I will try ~/.texmf/tex/latex/nassflow now and report back.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 19:45**

Do you use the TeXLive offered by the Ubuntu guys?

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 19:55**

I copied the files into ~/.texmf/tex/latex/nassflow and defined TEXMF=~/.texmf/. Gummi still can't find the nassi.sty

The Variable evaporates after I close bash. How do I define it to be permanently ?

TeXLive is installed on my system but I don't really know if Gummi is using it. As "typsetter comand" is pdflatex selected.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:11**

You have to export it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bach_profile or ~/.profile or something

It could be that you have to update some cache as well! Try putting the .sty in the same directory as your .tex files.

Actually, I suggest you scrap that 'buntu and try something that works, like Debian or OpenBSD. Did I tell you that I wrote my thesis on OpenBSD with Texlive? Never had a problem.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:21**

Minskleip wrote:[...]Actually, I suggest you scrap that 'buntu and try something that works, like Debian or OpenBSD. Did I tell you that I wrote my thesis on OpenBSD with Texlive? Never had a problem.

Or just use the version from the TeX Live guys (TeX Live 2011). This way you do not have to work with a TeX system that's totally outdated.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:32**

If I munch all files together everything works fine

Well at least now I can make this damn diagram. As it looks I will need a good book about latex because I cant do a thing here with intuition.
Why do you use TexLive ? Isn't Latex supposed to be easier than the old Tex ??
Witch editors do you use?

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:34**

Not sure if ubuntu has SELinux, if it has and the permissions are right but security context is wrong, it still won't find it.
ls --lcontext
and
man chcon
Does gummi have access to the files with the security context you got?

It's one of the things I hate most about this class of linuxes. BSD for me!

You can check if it's the problem with:
setenforce 0
and try again
If you do that and have a chmod 777 on the file (and check the parent directory for permissions too) it should find it, or it's looking in the wrong place.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:42**

Spharx wrote:Why do you use TexLive ? Isn't Latex supposed to be easier than the old Tex ??
Witch editors do you use?

It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).

My editor is nvi

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:46**

Spharx wrote:[...]Why do you use TexLive ? Isn't Latex supposed to be easier than the old Tex ??
Witch editors do you use?

Yes, it probably is, but TeX Live is a (La)TeX distribution, so you do not have to use TeX (I never did, well, not directly, only LaTeX).
I switch between Texmaker and Emacs with AucTeX, both are great, but Texmaker is way easier. I can most definitely recommend it.

Oh, and for LaTeX problems I can really recommend http://tex.stackexchange.com/. You will probably get help really fast, sometimes even from the package authors themselves.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 20:48**

Minskleip wrote:It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).[...]

... and LuaTeX, which is very promising, I think.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 21:45**

I seem to remember that I had to run texhash when I copied something to ~/texmf/tex/latex/<package name from sty file>/

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 21:46**

@webwit: The command ls --lcontext does not exist on my system.
Ansyways I have deleted all the mess before you posted

I will try other editors and maybe even freeBSD.

Thx guys for the help. Case closed for now

E:
@JBert that could be really the problem. I did read about it just some minutes ago. But I am to lazy for this now. Maybe I will try tomorrow.

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 22:32**

Lustique wrote:
Minskleip wrote:It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).[...]
... and LuaTeX, which is very promising, I think.

Tex implemented in Lua?

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 23:00**

Spharx wrote:@webwit: The command ls --lcontext does not exist on my system.

ls -l --context
or
ls -lZ

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 23:08**

Or maybe even better, he doesn't have that crap!

Posted: **09 Jan 2012, 23:41**

Redo it again:
- put in the package files as root in usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/nassflow/
- change the owner from root to my account
- chmod 777 on folder & files

install Texmaker -> viola it works
reinstall gummi -> also works

My conclusion: either texmaker, the owner change from root to a normal account or even a simple reboot did the job

This new OS will make me quiet some headaches in the next time

Also woodys commands work

Spoiler:

Posted: **10 Jan 2012, 23:50**

Minskleip wrote:
Lustique wrote:
Minskleip wrote:It's the most modern/uptodate/something Latex distribution. Latex is a macro package on top of Tex. There are others as well, like Context (or Contex?).[...]
... and LuaTeX, which is very promising, I think.
Tex implemented in Lua?

No, I think it's more like an advanced pdfTeX with a built-in Lua scripting engine. But I, more or less, only use it to be able to use OTF fonts.

deskthority

Latex/Kubuntu: Nassi–Shneiderman diagram

Latex/Kubuntu: Nassi–Shneiderman diagram