Missing inputenx

[nieroster]

Hello,

I have a completely different issue building the manual. The building process stops with an error:

! LaTeX Error: File `inputenx.sty' not found.

I definitely could not find this file on my machine, so the error message is correct. However I have found a file called `inputenc.sty' in the cygwin\usr\share\texmf\tex\latex\base folder.

I deleted the cygwin folder, did a clean setup of cygwin 1.7.9.1 according to the development guide (http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CygwinDevelopment) and ran the rockboxdev.sh shell script to build the cross compiler (running for 2hrs!). Building the rockbox binaries perfectly works but I still have troubles building the manual.

Is the missing file supposed to be part of the build environment? In this case which package am I missing? Or is it part of the rockbox sources?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Regards,
Franz

[AlexP]

You need the inputenx package (which is different to inputenc). Hopefully you can install this through the cygwin installer, if not you might need to do it manually.  I can't help much more I'm afraid as I don't use cygwin.

P.S. For a completely different issue, a new thread is appropriate.  I've split it.

[nieroster]

Hello AlexP,

thank you for your answer and splitting  .

I have installed the following packages as suggested in the development guide:
tetex-base
tetex-bin
tetex-extra
texinfo

The cygwin installer also lists the following LaTeX related packages:
tetex (install helper)
tetex-tiny (tiny libraries subset)
tetex-x11 (X11 binaries)
texi2html A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator
untex: Remove LaTeX commands from input

which of them do I need?

Regards,
Franz

[Buschel]

Just follow the installation instructions in the pdf document linked below. I added inputenx and could create the manual afterrwards.

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/inputenx.pdf

[nieroster]

Thank you, this indeed worked! 

Franz

[JoshuaChang]

sorry for my poor linux experience, i've read the pdf, but still don't know how to install the inputenx...could someone give me a more detailed install guide?

[bluebrother]

sorry for my poor linux experience, i've read the pdf, but still don't know how to install the inputenx...could someone give me a more detailed install guide?

Which Linux distribution are you using? Most distros use TeXLive these days, and in this case you should be able to install missing packages with the TeXLive package manager (as described in the wiki for Cygwin). Apart from that inputenx should be part of your distros LaTeX packages. It is at least for me, so if you tell us which distro you're using someone should be able to tell you which package you need.

[JoshuaChang]

sorry, i forgot to add my working platform, i'm using windows+cygwin, with tetex-base+tetex-extra installed(as described in cygwin installation guide), but failed to install inputenx in the final part,
i've searched google, seems that regular latex packages contain one .dtx file and one .ins file, i can only find inputenx.dtx...i totally got confused with its installation.

[bluebrother]

On Cygwin I can recommend installing TeXLive instead of using teTeX (see http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LatexInstallation)

If you want to stick with teTeX it works like this (that's only one solution, you could also install it into a local texmf tree. I guess this won't matter on cygwin though).

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# put it into the oberdiek folder that should be present
cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/oberdiek/
# get the package file
wget http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/inputenx.dtx
# extract it
tex inputenx.dtx
# we don't need the file anymore
rm inputenx.dtx
# rebuild LaTeX' ls-R database
mktexlsr

Edit: I've updated the wiki with this: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LatexInstallation#A_33teTeX

[JoshuaChang]

thanks for the detailed instruction, it worked for me!