[LON-CAPA-admin] Printing problem

[Stuart Raeburn]

Richard,

> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.

That is odd.

On CentOS/Red Hat/Scientific Linux 6 I would expect LON-CAPA's  
./UPDATE script which is run to install LON-CAPA would have retrieved  
picins.sty from:

http://install.loncapa.org/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty

and written it to:

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty

and then to have run:

/usr/bin/texconfig rehash


My suggestion would be to:

See if /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty exists, and if not  
do those steps manually.

However, if picins.sty was not installed I do wonder what other  
commands might have not have run to completion when you installed  
LON-CAPA.  You might look in the WARNINGS file in the loncapa-2.10.1  
directory from where you ran ./UPDATE to install LON-CAPA, to see if  
there are any other notes, warnings or errors.

I would have expected to see this:

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty created and  
/usr/bin/texconfig rehash ran successfully.

in the WARNINGS file.

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "Lucas, Richard" <clucas at purdue.edu>:

> We're getting an error when trying to print from LON-CAPA, here is   
> the message:
>
> LaTeX could not successfully parse your TeX file.
> It probably has errors in it.
> Here are the error messages in the LaTeX log file:
> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or  to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
> Enter file name:
> ! Emergency stop.
>
> l.3 ...kage{wrapfig}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage
>                                                   [T1]{fontenc}^^M
> *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
>
>
> I found an old bug that mentioned possibly running fmtutil-sys   
> --missing but that resulted in an error about missing syst-tex. Any   
> help would be very appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Richard