[XeTeX] Installed TexLive 2008 on Kubuntu Laptop, but cannot execute files

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Vafa Khalighi <vafa at users.berlios.de> wrote:
> Add
>
>   PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH
>   MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH
>   INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH
>
> To your .bashrc file in your home directory.

You may not need to set MANPATH.  Some implementations of "man" will look for
man pages in "man" directories under the same prefix as the "bin"
directory.  Try
some man pages first -- it may "just work".  If it doesn't, consider
using a symbolic link to the man directory rather than setting
MANPATH.

There are recipes for creating a dummy package that will satisfy the
dependencies
of other apps, although TL2008 will coexist well with the Ubuntu packages, e.g.:

<http://texblog.net/latex-archive/linux/kile-texlive-2008-equivs/>


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia