Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: installing new texmacs versions with ubuntu

[Bas Spitters]

I would very strongly advice against combining Debian and Ubuntu repositories.
I messed up my system doing that once.

Instead, I would advice to download the deb-file and use gdebi, the tool specifically developed to install locale packages:
https://launchpad.net/gdebi

Alternatively, use this method:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
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Bas

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:57:49 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> <posted & mailed>
>
> Marie-Francoise Roy wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Version 1.0.6.14 of Texmacs is incluced in my Ubuntu distribution and
> > this is what I installed a few months ago.
> >
> > I received info from freshmeat that new Texmacs versions are available
> > apparently 1.0.7.2-1 is the latest one, but I do not know how to proceed
> > to install it
> >
> > On the Texmacs site it is said "Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com/> is based
> > on Debian <http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/linux.en.html#debian>
> > "unstable", and therefore contains TeXmacs. You can (probably) install
> > an up-to-date TeXmacs from Debian "experimental"", but Debian
> > "experimental" does not work
>
> I am part of the texmacs packaging team for Debian. The best way to see
> what debian has is to go to
>
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=texmacs
>
> Now you should see that Debian Sid (unstable) has texmacs 1:1.0.7.2-1 . If
> you are looking for the latest released versions, chances are that you will
> find them either in experimental or in unstable.
>
> To access packages in unstable distribution add
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
>
> To access packages in experimental distribution add
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>
> to your /etc/apt/sources.list . Then run
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install texmacs
>
>
> This should work seemlessly. If there are any problems, please let us know
> (through this mailing list). If you are successful, then also please let us
> know. That way we know whether the updating process works or not on Ubuntu.
>
> hth
> raju