[R] ERROR: 'latex' needed but missing on your system.

[Joel J. Adamson]

Peter Dalgaard writes:
 > Joel J. Adamson wrote:
 > > /usr/share/texmf/bin/latex is a symlink to pdfetex in the same
 > > directory, also rwxr-xr-x, so it's executable by everybody.  Just to
 > > remind you, I issed "make dvi" as root.
 > >   
 > Hm? Does it produce DVI or PDF then? If the latter, I can imagine that
 > configure will become confused.


.-(~)-----------------------------------------------------------(joel at ...)-
`--> whatis pdfetex
pdfetex              (1)  - PDF output from e-TeX


I'm as surprised as you are right now.  This is the regular "latex"
command, it produces .dvi files for me every day.  I repeat, I have
the same setup under PCLinuxOS and I had no ./configure problems.

Joel
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
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