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tdtooke:
I just updated Cygwin and when I do that to test things out I always compile every single thing I can compile to make sure everything works properly.  I got an error compiling the manual, something about missing utf8x.def.  I looked where it was supposed to be and couldn't find it, but I did find a utf8.def.  I thought that was probably what it really wanted so I cheated by creating a shortcut to utf8.def named utf8x.def and did a texhash.  That seemed to work things out, but I'm a bit confused about why this happened.  I made sure all the options the wiki tells you to have checked were checked.  I did notice an odd delay in the installation completing.  It hung at 95% forever.  Any thoughts?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: tdtooke on July 06, 2007, 08:16:02 AM ---I thought that was probably what it really wanted so I cheated by creating a shortcut to utf8.def named utf8x.def and did a texhash.  That seemed to work things out, but I'm a bit confused about why this happened.
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AFAIK the utf8 package had this file previously called utf8.def but changed to utf8x.def later. My guess is that your utf8 package is really old.


--- Quote ---I did notice an odd delay in the installation completing.  It hung at 95% forever.
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Can you be more specific on that one? What installation are you referring to?

tdtooke:
I was referring to me running Cygwin setup again for the update.  I didn't notice what exactly it was on when it was hanging at 95%, just that it was hanging.  I'll rerun it and have it reinstall the text stuff to see if that helps.

Edit: Ok, I just checked Cygwin.com and the latest tetex I found referenced on that site is 3.0.0-3 which is what I have.  I looked here and couldn't find utf8x.def so if there's a place where I can get a more current version of tetex then can you give me the address for that mirror?

paulheu:
I have the same issue on my ubuntu install (parallels)

What tex package should I install ? I currently have tetx-base and tetex-extra, but still get the above error..

any help appreciated..

pixelma:
You need to additionally install the unicode packages - http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main//ManualHowto#How_do_I_install_LaTeX has a bit of info. For Ubuntu there is a premade package as the wiki states... for cygwin you have to install it manually. Then at least compiling the pdf manual should work, compiling the html one is a different issue.

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