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Hi,

I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upgrade to
Lenny recently.

I wonder the current status of tetex -> texlive transition. Is there
going to be any known problem during the upgrade? Do I need to purge
some related packages in advance? Thank you.

$ aptitude search ~i~ntetex
i A tetex-base - Basic TeX input files of teTeX
i A tetex-bin - The teTeX programs
i A tetex-doc - The documentation component of the
i tetex-extra - Additional TeX input files of teTeX

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Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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* Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com> [070909 01:14]:
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> Hi,
>
> I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upgrade to
> Lenny recently.
>
> I wonder the current status of tetex -> texlive transition. Is there
> going to be any known problem during the upgrade? Do I need to purge
> some related packages in advance? Thank you.
>
> $ aptitude search ~i~ntetex
> i A tetex-base - Basic TeX input files of teTeX
> i A tetex-bin - The teTeX programs
> i A tetex-doc - The documentation component of the
> i tetex-extra - Additional TeX input files of teTeX
>
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> Cheers,
>
> Wei Chen
> http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/

I am no expert, but I do make extensive use of texlive daily.

This matter has been discussed on this list over the past several
months (see the list archives). Some have had problems upgrading from
tetex to texlive; others have upgraded without difficulty.

The approach which I took -- which appears to provide the best
guarantee against problems -- is not to upgrade, but simply to
completely uninstall tetex (that is, not only uninstall, but also
purge the tetex configuration files), and then install texlive.

As to the tetex -> texlive transition, there appear to be a few
packages which run under tetex but not texlive. I personally have not
encountered such packages. However, the fact of the matter is that
tetex no longer is supported, so eventually packages which once worked
under tetex are going to quit working under tetex.

Otherwise, once texlive is installed, it appears to me to work exactly
as did tetex. I have no complaints.

RLH


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Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com> [070909 01:14]:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upgrade to
>> Lenny recently.
>>
>> I wonder the current status of tetex -> texlive transition. Is there
>> going to be any known problem during the upgrade? Do I need to purge
>> some related packages in advance? Thank you.
>>
>> $ aptitude search ~i~ntetex
>> i A tetex-base - Basic TeX input files of teTeX
>> i A tetex-bin - The teTeX programs
>> i A tetex-doc - The documentation component of the
>> i tetex-extra - Additional TeX input files of teTeX
>>
>> - --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wei Chen
>> http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
>
> I am no expert, but I do make extensive use of texlive daily.
>
> This matter has been discussed on this list over the past several
> months (see the list archives). Some have had problems upgrading from
> tetex to texlive; others have upgraded without difficulty.
>
> The approach which I took -- which appears to provide the best
> guarantee against problems -- is not to upgrade, but simply to
> completely uninstall tetex (that is, not only uninstall, but also
> purge the tetex configuration files), and then install texlive.
>
> As to the tetex -> texlive transition, there appear to be a few
> packages which run under tetex but not texlive. I personally have not
> encountered such packages. However, the fact of the matter is that
> tetex no longer is supported, so eventually packages which once worked
> under tetex are going to quit working under tetex.
>
> Otherwise, once texlive is installed, it appears to me to work exactly
> as did tetex. I have no complaints.
>

Thank you for your response. I shall do accordingly, i.e. purge the
tetex related packages and then upgrade, and report the result later.

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Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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Wei Chen wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> * Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com> [070909 01:14]:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upgrade to
>>> Lenny recently.
>>>
>>> I wonder the current status of tetex -> texlive transition. Is there
>>> going to be any known problem during the upgrade? Do I need to purge
>>> some related packages in advance? Thank you.
>>>
>>> $ aptitude search ~i~ntetex
>>> i A tetex-base - Basic TeX input files of teTeX
>>> i A tetex-bin - The teTeX programs
>>> i A tetex-doc - The documentation component of the
>>> i tetex-extra - Additional TeX input files of teTeX
>>>
>>> - --
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Wei Chen
>>> http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
>> I am no expert, but I do make extensive use of texlive daily.
>
>> This matter has been discussed on this list over the past several
>> months (see the list archives). Some have had problems upgrading from
>> tetex to texlive; others have upgraded without difficulty.
>
>> The approach which I took -- which appears to provide the best
>> guarantee against problems -- is not to upgrade, but simply to
>> completely uninstall tetex (that is, not only uninstall, but also
>> purge the tetex configuration files), and then install texlive.
>
>> As to the tetex -> texlive transition, there appear to be a few
>> packages which run under tetex but not texlive. I personally have not
>> encountered such packages. However, the fact of the matter is that
>> tetex no longer is supported, so eventually packages which once worked
>> under tetex are going to quit working under tetex.
>
>> Otherwise, once texlive is installed, it appears to me to work exactly
>> as did tetex. I have no complaints.
>
>
> Thank you for your response. I shall do accordingly, i.e. purge the
> tetex related packages and then upgrade, and report the result later.
>

The upgrade went all right except for a lot of warning messages from
perl complaining that locale cannot be set and some error messages about
not being able to connecting to a certain website, which I thought were
not related to the texlive transition.

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Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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