Closed jpallen closed 10 years ago
I get exactly this error. How can I solve this issue? It would be nice if you could help me, since I am rather a tex beginner. I use Miktex and tried to reinstall the full package version but it does not work
You can fix it by installing the latest version from source. Assuming you have TeXLive 2014, download breqn.dtx
, flexisym.dtx
and mathstyle.dtx
into /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn
. Then run:
$ cd /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn
$ sudo tex breqn.dtx
$ sudo tex flexisym.dtx
$ sudo tex mathstyle.dtx
$ sudo mktexlsr
Thank you very much for your help jpallen! Since I use windows I tried execute all these files manually from the original breqn source file. Unfortunately, now I get the error message, when compiling breqn.dtx ... I just reinstalled my computer and now it does not work anymore.... so bad.
! LaTeX Error: File `breqn.sty' not found.
It seems that the files with respect to breqn are missing on the offiial package repositories (as you said). I try to do something analogous as you suggested.
Hi all,
This was not an upstream issue — the fault is all mine. I've now fixed the build script and sent a new version to CTAN; we can expect it to be fixed in TL next week. Many apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks much for reporting and discussing the issue here.
Will
Thank you Will. I really like breqn.
I used the new build script and tried to compile breqn.dtx in texworks but I still get the error message: ! LaTeX Error: File `cmbase.sym' not found.
I am a LaTeX beginner and I do not want to bother you, so if I just need to wait untill the official update will be installed that's also okay. I hope it will be soon available also for Miktex :-)
The fix in the build script is for my uploads to CTAN; I doubt it would have helped you :)
. To get the .sym
files you need, run plain TeX on flexisym.dtx
. That will produce the .sty
file and the .sym
files; they need to be put somewhere for LaTeX to find them. While you wait for the MiKTeX update, you could just put them in the same folder as the document you're working on.
Hi all, sorry for my question but I am really a beginner, could you please guys tell me where to run this code
$ cd /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn $ sudo tex breqn.dtx $ sudo tex flexisym.dtx $ sudo tex mathstyle.dtx $ sudo mktexlsr
as I installed TexLive 2014 but still have the same problem
Regards
@ziadziad6 — You shouldn't need to run this code; the version of breqn
on CTAN has fixed this issue. If necessary, you can download the .tds.zip
file from https://www.ctan.org/pkg/breqn, but simply updating TeXLive using tlmgr
should be all you need.
Thank you very much @wspr for your response
Apologies if this is actually an upstream TeXLive 2014 issue, but breqn seems broken in TeXLive 2014 currently. It seems that only breqn.sty, flexisym.sty and mathstyle.sty are included, but additional files like cmbase.sym are missing. I note that if I run
tex flexistm.dtx
then these are generated correctly, butlatex flexistm.dtx
does not generate them. The cmbase.sym file is also missing in the breqn.tds.zip /source directory on CTAN (will this be where TeXLive gets it from?)The missing cmbase.sym file causes the following error: "LaTeX Error: File 'cmbase.sym' not found." when calling
\usepackage{breqn}