--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "Pascal" <pascal.hasko@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need help with setting up my PATH environments on Debian Testing (Wheezy) after I manually installed TexLive 2011. In Debian's repositories (Testing) there is only TexLive 2009 available and I need an up-to-date moderncv.cls class file for writing a specific document. So I decided to upgrade TexLive to the unstable version (TexLive 2011). Unfortunately the moderncv.cls file is also missing there. On the German Tex mailinglist I was adviced to manually install TexLive 2011, which has the files I need. Debian's TexLive package is rather incomplete. They generally advice to install TexLive by hand on Linux system and not rely on package-management in this regard.
>
> Removing the Debian TexLive is not really an option as my favorite LaTeX-Editor 'Kile' depends on it.
>
> The installation finished (Tested via command line, it works there!) the installer told me to change my PATH environment settings accordingly:
>
> Add /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/man to MANPATH, if not dynamically determined.
>
> Add /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/info to INFOPATH.
>
> Most importantly, add /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux to your PATH for current and future
> sessions.
>
> Now I'm somewhat confused as to where to put these lines. I am the only user on my home PC (If you do not count Root as a user in his own right), so the settings do not necessarily have to be system-wide. Some websites told me to put
> 'PATH=PATH$:/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux'
>
> in /etc/profile
>
> Others to put it into my own .profile. Still others said it should be either in /bash.bashrc or
> ~/.bashrc
>
> I got a little confused here.
>
> Ubuntu's German wiki advises against all the proposed solutions, and wants me to add these lines to /etc/environment. This file does not exist yet on my Debian system and I have not found any information so far, whether one should create such a file first. Although as to what I have read /etc/environment, at least on Ubuntu, should exist and have already some lines relating PATH variables in it.
>
>
> My GUI LaTeX editors still use Debian's own TexLive packages, not the manually installed ones and do not let me write the document as the aforementioned file is missing. I logged out after each change, and as that did not help I did a full reboot.
>
> Could you give some advice where to set the PATH environment? This should also be set for GUI programs.
>
> For the time being I would like to avoid the rough&dirty workaround of symlinking the default TexLive folders with the ones I have installed by hand.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
>
> Pascal
>
Have you looked in Debian unstable for texlive 2011?
http://packages.debian.org/sid/texlive
Package: texlive (2011.20120410-1)
Installing it might be your cleanest solution.
Sometimes it isn't the answers but the questions that matter.
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