Re: Evince .dvi problem on a network TeX Live install

[Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze wanadoo fr>]

Le mardi 01/06/10 à 17h01,
Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl> a écrit :

> Hi Denis,

Hi Hib,
 
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze wanadoo fr>
> wrote:
> > in our department, we manage to install TeX Live on a Samba (Debian)
> > server in order to compile .tex files from Windows desktops. On each
> > desktop, we installed Evince as a .dvi, .ps and .pdf files viewer.
> > Everything goes smoothly for .ps and .pdf files but not for .dvi
> > files as Evince looks for a texmf.cnf file in his subdirectories.
> >
> > Has someone a workaround for this trouble?
> 
> Evince looks for the 'mktexpk' program in the Windows PATH to find
> texmf.cnf. So, when you add the location of the TeX Live binaries to
> your PATH it might work.

Here we have:

echo %path%
c:\windows\system32;......;\\gte-srv\texlive\2009\bin\win32

> Alternatively you can try to set the environment variable TEXMFCNF on
> the Windows desktops to something like this:
> 
> TEXMFCNF=L:\texlive\2009\texmf\web2c
> 
> (that should be the folder where the texmf.cnf file is located, not
> the file itself).

and:

echo %TEXMFCNF%
\\gte-srv\texlive\2009\texmf\web2c  

> In my experience this can work,

Unfortunately, that didn't the trick. We still have the following error:

configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories:
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/bin;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0;
c:/Program Files/Evince;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/share/texmf-local/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/share/texmf-local/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/bin/texmf-local/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/texmf-local/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/texmf-local/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/bin/share/texmf/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/share/texmf/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/share/texmf/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/bin/texmf/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/2.30.0/texmf/web2c;
c:/Program Files/Evince/texmf/web2c.

> but it depends pretty much on the settings in your texmf.cnf file.

We didn't make any change in this file.

> It can be difficult to get that right with a setup like yours. Good
> luck!

Thanks! Nevertheless, any idea? :)
-- 
Denis