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

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

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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