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rwhenderson · Post by **rwhenderson** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:51 pm

This seems like it should be simple but it's driving me nuts. I just want to use pdflatex. I installed pdftex on my linux system (pdftex-1.40.10 package) but there is no pdflatex. My searches indicated maybe it's in TeX Live so I ran the install-tl-20110315 install package, and it proceeded to install hundreds of packages that I'm sure I don't need so I aborted it after 10 minutes while still installing stuff starting with 'a'.

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Post by **localghost** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:57 pm

It could be helpful if you tell us which specific Linux distribution you are running so that another user might be able to help in this regard.

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rwhenderson · Post by **rwhenderson** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:42 pm

I am running Centos 5.5.

Post by **localghost** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:03 pm

rwhenderson wrote:[…] My searches indicated maybe it's in TeX Live so I ran the install-tl-20110315 install package, and it proceeded to install hundreds of packages that I'm sure I don't need so I aborted it after 10 minutes while still installing stuff starting with 'a'.

If that's offered by the package manager of your Linux distribution, you can install it and should not abort the installation process. A TeX system consists of several hundreds (if not thousands) of files which are necessary. It seems that this package will install a full Tex Live system. Afterwards check on the terminal if the installation has been successful.

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pdflatex -version

As an alternative you can try to install TeX Live from DVD.

rwhenderson · Post by **rwhenderson** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:06 am

Thanks. My systemadmin installed tetek-latex and that took care of it.

sommerfee · Post by **sommerfee** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:54 am

rwhenderson wrote:My sysadmin installed tetek-latex and that took care of it.

Do you mean teTeX? This one is at least 6 years old, better use TeXlive instead.

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