[texdoc] unix: texdoc

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-07-30 at 11:42:41 +0200, Pavel Striz wrote:

 > Good afternoon,
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > Thank you for the texdoc tool.  It is great and a helpful tool,
 > esp. in the teaching process.
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > I have recently installed TeX Live 2011.  The texdoc tool is
 > working well under Microsoft Windows (7 Home).  I also tried Ubuntu
 > 11.04 and Debian 6 (using virtual environment via VMware Player) as
 > I dislike to have TeX Live 2009 there using plain ãsudo apt-get
 > install texlive-fullÒ...
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > Installation went fine, but after trying ãtexdocÒ IÕm getting:
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > user at debian:~$ texdoc lshort
 > 
 > /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/texdoc:7: module 'texdoc.main' not found:
 > 
 >                 no field package.preload['texdoc.main']
 > 
 >                 [kpse lua searcher] file not found: 'texdoc.main'
 > 
 >                 [kpse C searcher] file not found: 'texdoc.main'
 > 
 >                 [kpse All-in-one searcher] file not found: 'texdoc'
 > 
 >
 > 
 > user at debian:~$ texdoctk
 > 
 > Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/texdoctk line 12.
 > 
 > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/texdoctk line 12.

The latter problem can be solved with

    sudo apt-get install perl-tk

Regards,
  Reinhard

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha                                      Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover                              mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------