Month: February 2007

Installing IvriTeX-1.2.1 on teTeX-3.0

A few days ago, I finally decided to install IvriTeX-1.2.1 on my system. I’m running teTeX-3.0. The new version of IvriTeX includes some very important improvements and, at least for me, the most important thing is support for the Culmus fonts. teTeX-3.0 introduced a major directory change, which causes many problems when installing packages that are unaware of the changes. In this post, I will try to walk through the installation process.

TEXMF will be the directory of your local TeX tree (usually /usr/share/texmf). Before beginning the installation process, make sure you have the Culmus fonts installed. Apparently, Culmus is not optional; it’s a requirement. I’ll assume that your Culmus fonts are installed in /usr/share/fonts/culmus.

  1. Download the IvriTeX-1.2.1 source code from here.
  2. Extract the archive into a temporary directory.
  3. Save the diff file below to a file named “Makefile_patch” and save it inside ivritex-1.2.1/fonts/culmus.
  4. Apply the patch by going to the ivritex-1.2.1/fonts/culmus directory (under the directory where you extracted the source archive) and executing “patch Makefile_patch”. The patch will alter the places where some files will be installed.
  5. As root, execute “updmap –enable Map culmus.map”.
  6. Still as root, execute “mktexlsr”.
  7. IvriTeX 1.2.1 should be installed now.
--- Makefile    2007-02-14 19:59:52.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefilenew 2007-02-16 10:11:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 vf_target     = $(TEX_ROOT)/fonts/vf/culmus
 # this is where ivritex will eventually be:
 tex_target    = $(TEX_ROOT)/tex/generic/babel
-encode_dir    = $(TEX_ROOT)/dvips/base
-dvips_cfg_dir = $(TEX_ROOT)/dvips/config
+encode_dir    = $(TEX_ROOT)/fonts/enc/dvips/base
+map_dir       = $(TEX_ROOT)/fonts/map/
 sysconf       = $(DESTDIR)/etc
 updmap_dir    = $(sysconf)/texmf/updmap
 #culmus_target = $(PREFIX)/fonts/culmus
@@ -137,11 +137,11 @@
    mkdir -p $(sysconf)/texmf/updmap.d
    echo "Map culmus.map" >$(sysconf)/texmf/updmap.d/10culmus.cfg
 else
-   mkdir -p $(dvips_cfg_dir)
-   cp culmus.map $(dvips_cfg_dir)/
+   mkdir -p $(map_dir)
+   cp culmus.map $(map_dir)/
   ifeq ($(tetex_ver),2)
    # this should run mktexlsr as well
-   $(updmap) --enable Map $(dvips_cfg_dir)/culmus.map
+   $(updmap) --enable Map $(map_dir)/culmus.map
   else # for tetex-1
     ifeq ($(tetex_ver),1)
    # TODO: fill in sed line here

Samba and Firewall Configuration

I’ve been using Guarddog as a GUI for iptables for some time. I’ve configured it to allow connections to Samba network shares, but for some reason it won’t allow me to connect to the shares without disabling the firewall first. The blockage happened despite the proper configuration in Guarddog. So today I decided to look at the problem again and fix it.

After inspecting the output of ‘dmesg’, I found out that it tries to connect to 192.168.2.255 (192.168.2.* is my network), which is the broadcast address for the network. I tried enabling connections to that address, and to my surprise this fixed the problem. I guess Samba, for some reason, requires access to the broadcast address for some name/address lookup of hosts in the network.