Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#45397 closed defect (fixed)

latex2html @2008_3 staging into destroot error

Reported by: w.a.a.d.graef@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.1
Keywords: Cc: kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)
Port: latex2html

Description

Installing latex2html appears to be successful, but html.sty cannot be found by latex. Uninstalling and reinstalling with -v option reveals the following error message:

Info: Installed /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_releasError: Could not create directory "/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/html": Operation not permitted

Error: Cannot install LaTeX2HTML style files in /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/html

Quick ' dirty workaround:

sudo mkdir /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/html

before install.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

Cc: khindenburg@… added

Cc Me!

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

fixed in r126928 - ideally, this should be fixed by patching the configure/Makefiles. This software is really old and has lots of warnings when compiling and using. I couldn't find any newer software that does this latex2html.

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