About:
teTeX is the de facto standard TeX distribution for a wide range of Unix-type operating systems, and serves as a building block for others. It's easy to install and customize. teTeX is not maintained anymore; instead, TeX users should migrate to TeXlive.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Files were reviewed for license problems (teTeX is now free software), new program packages, main TeX formats, and a TDS (TeX Directory Structure) compliant support tree with fonts macros & documentation.

Author:
Thomas Esser <te __at__ dbs __dot__ uni __dash__ hannover __dot__ de> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.67/10.00 (14 votes)

Homepage:
http://tug.org/teTeX/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://cam.ctan.org/[..]-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib/
Changelog:
http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/NEWS
Mailing list archive:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), OSI Approved :: MIT/X Consortium License, The Latex Project Public License (LPPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Topic]		Office/Business :: Office Suites, Printing, Text Processing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	3.0	07-Feb-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Beta Development releases	2.99.13.20050204	07-Feb-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
3.0	Major feature enhancements	07-Feb-2005 09:43
2.0.2	Major feature enhancements	08-Mar-2003 16:39
1.0.7	N/A	05-Mar-2000 23:19
1.0.6	N/A	30-Jan-2000 07:16
1.0	N/A	07-Jun-1999 09:05

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat: Updated tetex packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 11th 2007 05:47 Red Hat: Updated tetex packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 11th 2007 01:09 Debian: New tetex-bin packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Aug 12th 2007 08:35 Red Hat: Updated tetex packages fix a security issue in PDF handling by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Aug 5th 2007 01:11 Red Hat: Updated tetex packages fix several integer overflows by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Jan 19th 2006 22:42

Debian: New tetex-bin packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Jan 12th 2006 05:14 Red Hat: New tetex packages fix several integer overflows by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Apr 1st 2005 07:41 Red Hat: New tetex packages fix security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Mar 16th 2005 08:05 Making Presentations with LaTeX and Prosper by Rajarshi Guha , in Tutorials Sat, Dec 28th 2002 00:00 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Package error: extracts to directory with wrong version number
by sigra - Dec 6th 2002 10:04:29

The package "teTeX-1.0.7" is extracted into the
directory "teTeX-1.0"! So if you install it and
look at the directory later you will see the
version 1.0 and you will find version 1.0.7
availible for download. So you think that you
have to upgrade. Very annoying.

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[»] out of date
by Ben Crowell - Jun 1st 2002 19:49:15

The problem with teTeX is that it's out of date. While this may not be a problem for some of the decades-old software it includes, it is a problem for software that's being actively developed, pdftex in particular. If you want a version of pdftex that actually works, you need to use texLive rather than teTeX. Many of the LaTeX macro packages are also being worked on actively, so again, you're better off using teXLive.

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[»] Re: out of date
by Martin Schröder - Aug 6th 2003 07:03:59

This was only a problem for the stable 1.x branch. If you need the latest bleeding edge you can always try the beta releases. And now with 2.x teTeX is up-to-date.

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[»] teTeX package
by niemand - Jan 31st 2000 13:10:33

The installation notes for this package need to be improved.

there are programs included in the package which should not be include.

Example: dialog and texinfo.

Why are these included to begin with?

Why are ncurses, libwww, and others included in the "package"?

There needs to be more explanation as to what the different TeX
packages included are.

The entire "package" should be built with shared libraries by
default. This is not the case.

the uninstall feature is broken.

if this is the best "TeX" package available for UNIX, i would honestly
not want to see the "worst".

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[»] Re: teTeX package
by Mike M - Jul 29th 2001 15:28:10

I agree. I would say I am very knowledgeable about Linux and how things work. I've installed my entire system from scratch (i use no distribution and compile from source for everything). Yet, I am struggling to get teTex 1.0.7 going.


> The installation notes for this package
> need to be improved.
>
> there are programs included in the
> package which should not be include.
>
> Example: dialog and texinfo.
>
> Why are these included to begin
> with?
>
> Why are ncurses, libwww, and others
> included in the "package"?
>
> There needs to be more explanation as
> to what the different TeX
> packages included are.
>
> The entire "package" should be built
> with shared libraries by
> default. This is not the case.
>
> the uninstall feature is broken.
>
> if this is the best "TeX" package
> available for UNIX, i would honestly
> not want to see the "worst".


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[»] Re: teTeX package
by dazk - Jan 27th 2002 07:04:25


> I agree. I would say I am very
> knowledgeable about Linux and how things
> work. I've installed my entire system
> from scratch (i use no distribution and
> compile from source for everything).
> Yet, I am struggling to get teTex 1.0.7
> going. Hmm,

I wonder what happened. I just installed the package from source by following the INSTALL file. Everything compiled and everything seems to work perfectly. I compiled some documents I wrote before and had no problems.

Actually I agree, this is the best TeX distribution for UNIX, at least the best I know.

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[»] Re: teTeX package
by Thomas Esser - Oct 26th 2004 16:13:23

dialog is included for texconfig to work. ncurses is needed for dialog. libwww used to be needed for the hyperlink features of xdvi.texinfo is needed for people who want to process their texinfo documentation.

You may work on a system that has dialog, ncurses etc. already installed. This is not true for all systems that teTeX runs on. I want that teTeX is easy to install on such systems, too, without having to say: "install package abc first. Then, package xyz. etc".

If you don't want to install e.g. texinfo that comes with teTeX, just
configure --without-texinfo

Shared libraries from the system can be used. A shared version of included libraries such as libkpathsea does not make much sense given the API of the library. Once this is improved, switching to --enable-shared by default will be reconsidered.

uninstalling is very easy if you choose the default configuration: "rm -rf /usr/local/teTeX". Of course, I'd be happy to see a working uninstall target, but that's not a high priority for me at the moment.

Thomas

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