> Latex is one crucial piece of software for me, as I'm writing my thesis, I'm writing it too :) > so I HAVE to have it working. It does work out of the box. Maybe you have > some missing packages? This is what I have: > > tetex-prosper-1.5-3.fc6 > tetex-xdvi-3.0-32.fc6 > tetex-dvips-3.0-32.fc6 > tetex-fonts-3.0-32.fc6 > tetex-latex-3.0-32.fc6 > tetex-3.0-32.fc6 I have no only tetex-prosper. I'm installing it now. > > Do you have enough space on the disk? Yes a lot of. over 20G > Are you running out of memory? a lot too 400M free > Is the processor slow? (Although I used latex on a 300MHz pc with 6Gb > disk and 64Mb of ram, in the days of yore of RH5.0, and before). Intel Pentium 3GHz rather fast I think ...