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[Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>]

On 07.10.21 22:37, tolugboji wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 8:13 PM, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> > TeXmacs needs guile 1.8, but the TeXmacs you download from
> >
> > www.texmacs.org come with guile 1.8 already bundled into the package so
> >
> > you do not need a separate guile installation.
> >
> > This said I have never been able to compile TeXmacs from the sources but
> >
> > installation of the static binary worked for me while the packages did
> >
> > not as there are currently no packages for the current version of
> >
> > Ubuntu, which I am using.
> >
> > How did you install it?
> >
> > G.
> Have never been impressed with texmacs, pain in the ass.  Wanted to give it 
> another go, but with same disappointment.
>
> I did as instructed.
>
> setenv TEXMACS_PATH [installation directory]
> setenv PATH $TEXMACS_PATH/bin:$PATH
>
> I extracted in /home/tolu/Opstk/bin/texmacs/texmacs-2.1/TeXmacs/bin
>
> then used in my .bashrc
>
>     export TEXMACS_PATH=${HOME}/Opstk/bin/texmacs/texmacs-2.1a/TeXmacs/bin
>     export PATH=$PATH:$TEXMACS_PATH

I have a faint knowledge of how environment variables are set in Linux 
(terminal vs. other ways of starting programs).

Perhaps setting an environment variable via .bashrc works only for 
terminal sessions; in this case you should still be able to start 
TeXmacs from a terminal.

In my Ubuntu I had to create a texmacs.sh file in with the export 
commands in /etc/profile.d/ (in .bashrc it would not work for TeXmacs 
started through the graphical interface, I figured out where to put the 
commands with an Internet search).

I agree that installing TeXmacs on Linux can be painful. If you are 
using a Linux for which there is a TeXmacs package, you may try that 
(they are improved with respect to their first versions, when they tried 
to install guile 1.8 in place of guile 2 ;-) )

G.



> > On 07.10.21 22:01, tolugboji wrote:
> >
> > > Am trying to run texmacs but encountering this problem
> > >
> > > Have installed texlive-full
> > >
> > > And also guile-2.2, guile-2.2libs, and guile-2.2-dev
> > >
> > > tolu@hag:~$ TeXmacs] std-warning, Could not find TeXmacs icon file:
> > >
> > > /home/tolu/Opstk/bin/texmacs/texmacs-2.1/bin/misc/images/texmacs-512.png
> > >
> > > TeXmacs]
> > >
> > > TeXmacs] Installation problem: please send a bug report.
> > >
> > > TeXmacs] The initialization file init-texmacs.scm could not be found.
> > >
> > > TeXmacs] Please check the values of the environment variables
> > >
> > > TeXmacs] TEXMACS_PATH and GUILE_LOAD_PATH. init-texmacs.scm should
> > >
> > > TeXmacs] be readable and in the directory $TEXMACS_PATH/progs
> > >
> > > TeXmacs] or in the directory $GUILE_LOAD_PATH
> > >
> > > TeXmacs]
> > >
> > > Throwing guile could not be found
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Error message:
> > >
> > >    guile could not be found
> > >
> > > System information:
> > >
> > >    TeXmacs version  : 2.1
> > >
> > >    Built by         : magix
> > >
> > >    Building date    : Tue Jun 22 13:47:24 CEST 2021
> > >
> > >    Operating system : linux-gnu
> > >
> > >    Vendor           : pc
> > >
> > >    Processor        : @CONFIG_HOST_CPU@
> > >
> > >    Crash date       : Fri  8 Oct 07:56:29 +12 2021
> > >
> > > TeXmacs server not yet started
> > >
> > > Backtrace of C++ stack:
> > >
> > >    texmacs.bin() [0x102f3d5]
> > >
> > >    texmacs.bin() [0x59fbf8]
> > >
> > >    texmacs.bin() [0xc0c9f4]
> > >
> > >    texmacs.bin() [0x4151b4]
> > >
> > >    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 : __libc_start_main() + 0xe7
> > >
> > >    texmacs.bin() [0x40ecb9]
> > >
> > > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'string'