Resolving upgreek.pty missing on Mac issue

[Anonymous]

Dear all!

Thanks a lot for this tool!

I just want to share how I resolved an issue on my Mac running Snow Leopard.

There are quite some packages to install before pyxplot can run on a Mac, which is described in the README.

After installing all dependencies using the "port" command, compiling the pyxplot, you might run into the following issue:

pyxplot> set display ; refresh
Error: LaTeX error encountered in an unidentifiable canvas item.
Error was: File `upgreek.sty' not found.

This, since you just don't have the upgreek package installed with the default _port_ installation on your Mac.

Resolve this by:

1) Download the was.zip package from ctan, http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/was/
2) Extract the file into a temp directory
3) Run latex on the upgreek.ins file

latex upgreek.ins

4) Copy the _was_ directory to your local latex installation and run _texhash_

cd ..
sudo cp -r now /opt/local/share/texmf-local/
sudo texhash

5) Done!

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, typo in step 4)

cd ..
sudo cp -r was /opt/local/share/texmf-local/
sudo texhash

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