docs/building-the-docs-on-debian

   1 OK, so Debian's passivetex and xmltex packages are sucking right now, I think.
   2 Here's what I had to do to get the PDF output to work properly.
   3
   4 # rm -rf /usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/contrib/passivetex
   5 # cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
   6 # wget http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/passivetex.zip
   7 # unzip passivetex.zip
   8 # rm passivetex.zip
   9 # cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/base
  10 # wget http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/xmltex.tex
  11 # mktexlsr
  12 # cd /var/lib/texmf/web2c
  13 # pdftex -ini "&pdflatex" pdfxmtex.ini
  14 # cp 95NonPath /etc/texmf/texmf.d
  15 # update-texmf
  16
  17 Sheesh. Don't ask how long that took to figure out.
  18
  19 -- Andy Wingo, 11 July 2002