I don't want the latex command to produce PDFs.
Dieter Schicker
dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at
Mon Aug 14 13:12:52 UTC 2006
didi at xubuntu:/tmp$ latex -output-format=dvi test.tex
...
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 1052 bytes).
...
didi at xubuntu:/tmp$ latex -output-format=pdf test.tex
...
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 15324 bytes).
...
So, I can't see where the problem is? But maybe I don't get what you
mean ...
Cheers
Dieter
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:34 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> I've recently switched from Debian to Ubuntu and noticed that the
> latex command produces .pdf rather than .dvi output because of the
> symlink [1]
>
> [1] /usr/bin/latex -> pdfetex
>
> whereas on my old Debian box [2] is the case.
>
> [2] /usr/bin/latex -> etex
>
> I'd like to fix this so the latex command works "normally", but I
> can't just change the latex symlink to point to etex because of [3] on
> Ubuntu (on Debian etex is a binary).
>
> [3] /usr/bin/etex -> pdfetex
>
> How should restore the traditional behaviour on an Ubuntu system? (If
> I want PDF output, I'll use the pdflatex command.)
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
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