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Old 11-17-2003, 01:29 PM   #1
kothapallis
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Problems installing latex on redhat 9.0 , please help me :(


hi i am newbie to linux and i want some help installing latex on my machine(redhat 9.0).
I know we need tetex as base , before installing latex package

i have downloaded following rpms:

tetex-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm tetex-dvips-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm
tetex-afm-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm tetex-fonts-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm
tetex-doc-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm tetex-latex-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm

and when i installed i have following dependency errors
warning: tetex-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
error: Failed dependencies:
dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-66
libmd5.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwapp.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwcache.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwcore.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwdir.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwfile.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwftp.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwgopher.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwhtml.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwhttp.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwinit.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwmime.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwmux.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwnews.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwstream.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwtelnet.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwtrans.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwutils.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwxml.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libwwwzip.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66
libxmlparse.so.0 is needed by tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-66

In one of the post some one mentioned that i have to install
w3c-libwww-5.4.0-4.i386.rpm , but when i install
i get one error this time:
error: Failed dependencies:
dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-66

Any kind of feedback will be really appreciated, or if u could tell me how i could make latex work on my machine, that will be really great

Thanks guys!!
 
Old 11-17-2003, 02:08 PM   #2
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Well, you got rid of most of your package dependencies by installing the w3c-libwww package, so that's good. You've got just one dependency left. Try installing the "dialog" package. On my RH9, it's package dialog-0.9b-20020814.2. Yours may have a different version number, but just find a package that begins with "dialog-" and install that.
 
Old 11-17-2003, 03:21 PM   #3
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Mac!!
Thanks man it worked!!
 
  


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