tetex, latex, dvips

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Florian Hengstberger" <e0025265 at student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Why do latex and tetex conflict?

Because both of them try to install /usr/local/bin/latex (et. al.).

> fonts missing! When I try to install dvips I get the following
> message:
> 
> ===>  Installing for dvips-5.76
> 
> ===>  dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): 
>       teTeX-base-2.0.2_2
>       teTeX-texmf-2.0.2
> 
>       They install files into the same place.
>       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/print/dvips.
> 
> How can a tex distribution conflict with and dvi to ps
> converter???

Because they install files into the same place.  If you're interested
in which ones, look at the pkg_plist files.

Try installing print/dvipsk-tetex.