[tex-live] tlpmgui on linux

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Jan 7 03:57:57 CET 2007


Hi,
I tried to invoke tlpmgui from an xterm but it sais:

 +--------------------------------------------+
     Error!   tlpmgui require Xwindow
 +--------------------------------------------+

Don't know how you test whether you are using X11.  The easiest way is
to check whether the DISPLAY variable is set.  This is not 100%
reliable but it should be sufficient.  BTW., I think that the "X Window
system" is better known as "X11" in a UNIX environment and it is
probably better to say "tlpmgui requires X11".  But this is a matter
of taste.  If you ask 1000 people you'll get 1000 different suggestions.

$ file tlpmgui
tlpmgui: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped

Of course, self-contained executables have a few advantages.  But
isn't a Perl script more portable today on UNIX systems? 

Cheers,
  Reinhard

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