[gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

[gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

[a-burghardt]

Hello everyone!

I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex
(http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in
portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm still
a new to Gentoo/Linux).

Is there anybody out there who ever made an ebuild or a package for
arabtex which I could use?

If I would have enough time I would studdy the portage guide ... but
that's not possible that moment.

With best regards,

   Andreas Burghardt
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[gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

[a-burghardt]

Hello everyone!

I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex
(http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in
portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm
still
a new to Gentoo/Linux).

Is there anybody who ever made an ebuild or a package for
arabtex which I could use? I already had a closer look at google ... but
without any luck!

If I would have enough time I would studdy the portage guide ... but
that's not possible that moment.

With best regards,

   Andreas Burghardt

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Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:02:40AM +0100, Penguin Lover a-burghardt@gmx.de squawked:
> I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex
> (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in
> portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm
> still
> a new to Gentoo/Linux).
> 
> Is there anybody who ever made an ebuild or a package for
> arabtex which I could use? I already had a closer look at google ... but
> without any luck!

AFAIK, there's is no such thing. (Generally the first place to check
would be bugs.gentoo.org, which shows that nothing by the name of
arabtex exists.) 

There was some effort on making a g-ctan script which like the g-cpan
script (which installs perl packages from CPAN) can install CTAN
packages, it is at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85411
but I am not quite sure whether it would work or not. 

Your best bet is to just install the package yourself directly from
CTAN, installation notes and list of files are here:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/install.txt

and follow the installation advice

http://www.ctan.org/installationadvice/

Best of luck

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

[a-burghardt]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:45:33PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:02:40AM +0100, Penguin Lover a-burghardt@gmx.de squawked:
> > I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex
> > (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in
> > portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm
> > still
> > a new to Gentoo/Linux).
> > 
> > Is there anybody who ever made an ebuild or a package for
> > arabtex which I could use? I already had a closer look at google ... but
> > without any luck!
> 
> AFAIK, there's is no such thing. (Generally the first place to check
> would be bugs.gentoo.org, which shows that nothing by the name of
> arabtex exists.) 
> 
> There was some effort on making a g-ctan script which like the g-cpan
> script (which installs perl packages from CPAN) can install CTAN
> packages, it is at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85411
> but I am not quite sure whether it would work or not. 
> 
> Your best bet is to just install the package yourself directly from
> CTAN, installation notes and list of files are here:
> ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/install.txt
> 
> and follow the installation advice
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/installationadvice/

Thank you very much for this link! I finally installed arabtex like
this:

1. Kopie the */arabtex directories to their right place in
/usr/share/texmf/

2. cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/ && texhash 

Thats it ... (its not nice ... but its working).

Thank you for your help.

   Best refards,

      Andreas


> 
> Best of luck
> 
> W
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Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:52:56 +0100
a-burghardt@gmx.de wrote:

> I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex
> (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in
> portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm still
> a new to Gentoo/Linux).

First: Do you really want to build an ebuild? I'm asking because
arabtex only depends on an installed TeX system and isn't even
OS-specific about it.

For Gentoo (and most other Linux distros), that means you can get
easily away with:

root$ cd /usr/local/share
root$ mkdir texmf         (if it doesn't yet exist)
root$ cd texmf
root$ wget ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arab311.tgz    (or whatever is current)
root$ tar xzf arab311.tgz
root$ texhash

and you can happily use arabtex on that machine. You can deploy this
amongst machines (e.g. rsync'ing the /usr/local/share/texmf tree).

> Is there anybody out there who ever made an ebuild or a package for
> arabtex which I could use?

Well, I would volunteer if you really need one, but please 
explain first why ;-)

-hwh
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