texi2dvi fails in faq

[Michael D Godfrey]

  On 09/15/2010 07:31 AM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> I will
> watch for the corrections which will allow a normal install of the latest
> texlive.
I meant to add to this: including a current texi2dvi.

Michael

This problem, at least for Fedora 13, is resolved by:

1. Use of the current texlive-2010-10.  This is described as not yet
    released, but it the only recent version available.

2. Correct installation from the texlive repository. There are four
    key steps in this: 1) Previous tex or texlive systems must be
    completely removed.  yum remove texlive is not sufficient. Run
    rpm -qa|grep texlive to find leftover packages and remove them, then
    remove  /usr/share/texlive.  2) Be sure that the environment variable
    TEXINPUTS is not defined in your environment during the
    install.  3) Install texinfo-4.13a-10.fc13.x86_64 from the standard
    fedora FC13 repository.  (Do not allow the system to install texinfo-tex.)
    This installs (currently) a compatible  makeinfo.  4) Download the
    texinfo-4.13a.tar.gz  from the texinfo
    website (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/).
   Use it to install texi2dvi, texindex, and if you want it,
    texi2pdf. (These are found in texinfo-4.13/util.)

At this point a full build should successfully complete the doc processing,
and the make check tests that require makeinfo should pass.

These steps are required due to the fact that texlive has decided not to
provide or support texinfo.

The belief that the problem as originally reported was due to grep/egrep problems
was not accurate.  The problems were  mainly in texi2dvi, but made more obscure
due to errors in the texlive install (these involved incorrect installation of the .fmt
files, among other problems).

Michael