Dear Debianers,

I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive (initially including texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-common and subsequently texlive-all). After this, the system cannot find the ams.sty file for the American Mathematical Society package (which should apparently be installed with texlive-base -- this package is listed as installed at version 2007-4).

Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either.

Any ideas what could be going wrong?

Thanks Peter


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On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <Peter.Robinson@t-online.de> wrote:
> I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive (initially including texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-common and subsequently texlive-all). After this, the system cannot find the ams.sty file for the American Mathematical Society package (which should apparently be installed with texlive-base -- this package is listed as installed at version 2007-4).
>
> Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either.
>
> Any ideas what could be going wrong?

Wasn't ams.sty deprecated years ago? And wasn't it amstex.sty?
amsmath.sty is in texlive-latex-base. amssymb.sty is in texlive-base.
Why they're separated, I have no idea.

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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <Peter.Robinson@t-online.de> wrote:
> >I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686
> >#1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated
> >some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive
> >(initially including texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-common and
> >subsequently texlive-all). After this, the system cannot find the ams.sty
> >file for the American Mathematical Society package (which should
> >apparently be installed with texlive-base -- this package is listed as
> >installed at version 2007-4).
> >
> >Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either.
> >
> >Any ideas what could be going wrong?
>
> Wasn't ams.sty deprecated years ago? And wasn't it amstex.sty?
> amsmath.sty is in texlive-latex-base. amssymb.sty is in texlive-base.
> Why they're separated, I have no idea.


You are right. For some reason I had included the ams package in the latex file I was working on as well as the amsmath package. Deleting the reference to ams solved the problem.

Thanks for the !, Peter














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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 15:47:45 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> Dear Debianers,
>
> I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC
> (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex
> working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex
> packages and installed texlive (initially including texlive-base,
> texlive-bin, texlive-common and subsequently texlive-all). After this,
> the system cannot find the ams.sty file for the American Mathematical
> Society package (which should apparently be installed with
> texlive-base -- this package is listed as installed at version
> 2007-4).
>
> Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either.
>
> Any ideas what could be going wrong?

The command that you quote above has a typo ("amy.sty"). However, I
don't think that that is really the problem: It seems that "ams.sty" was
removed in texlive 2007-4. It is still present in texlive 2005.dfsg.3-1.
The removal may have been due to licensing issues (restrictions on
commercial re-distribution, which is DFSG-incompatible) and/or because
the file is obsolete (it is no longer on CTAN either).

My guess is that \usepackage{amsmath} or \usepackage{amssymb} (if you
only need the AMS symbols) will work as a replacement. If you really
need the original ams.sty then you can find it on the web and put it in
your ~/texmf.

On a related note: Searching through system directories is much faster
if you use "locate":

locate ams.sty
locate -br '^ams.*\.sty'

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Hello,

`ams.sty' can be found in `texlive-latex-extra' Debain Lenny Package

Jerome

Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
>> On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <Peter.Robinson@t-online.de> wrote:
>>> I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686
>>> #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated
>>> some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive
>>> (initially including texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-common and
>>> subsequently texlive-all). After this, the system cannot find the ams.sty
>>> file for the American Mathematical Society package (which should
>>> apparently be installed with texlive-base -- this package is listed as
>>> installed at version 2007-4).
>>>
>>> Using find /usr/share -iname amy.sty turned up nothing either.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what could be going wrong?
>> Wasn't ams.sty deprecated years ago? And wasn't it amstex.sty?
>> amsmath.sty is in texlive-latex-base. amssymb.sty is in texlive-base.
>> Why they're separated, I have no idea.
>
>
> You are right. For some reason I had included the ams package in the latex file I was working on as well as the amsmath package. Deleting the reference to ams solved the problem.
>
> Thanks for the !, Peter
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>> http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
>> http://36pints.blogspot.com
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