I'm not completely sure if I installed texlive using yum, or if texlive came
with the initial install of Fedora 17. My vague recollection is that
there was
a latex facility that came with Fedora 17 but it was incomplete, and that
I did indeed do "yum install texlive" to fix things up.
Now when I do "yum install texlive" it tells me that I have the latest
version
and that there is nothing to do.
*BUT* there are flakes. Toy example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{isodate}
\cleanlookdateon
\begin{document}
Today's date is: \today.
\end{document}
When I run latex I get the error:
! LaTeX Error: File `isodate.sty' not found.
But if I ask (in the shell) "locate isodate" I get:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/isodate
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/isodate
However the directory /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/isodate
is empty.
I thought that this might be rectified by doing an install from the
texlive web site. But then I (as described in my initial post) got stymied
by a deficiency in my system in respect of perl.
Now that I look, it seems that almost all of the directories in
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex are empty. (There are
exceptions, e.g. amsmath.)
Is there some incantation that I can invoke, via yum, to get these
directories filled up?
Thanks.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 04/11/2013 09:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/11/13 17:03, Rolf Turner wrote:
Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that
previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to
switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.)
I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness
by re-installing texlive.
I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from
http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html
unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed
./install.tl
How had you installed texlive previously on F17?
Did you not install it with
yum install texlive
for a reason?
as per instructions. I got an error message:
Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./tlpkg /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199.
Compilation failed in require at ./install-tl line 53.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./install-tl line 53.
yum install perl-Digest-MD5 will get you Digest/MD5.pm
I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me.
I presume that I need to update *something* w.r.t. perl, but it is not at all
clear to me what I need to do. Doing "yum search perl" gave a plethora of
hits. I have no idea which are the relevant ones. Then "yum search perl5"
basically turned up perl-pgsql_perl5.x86_64. What has pgsql got to do with
the price of eggs in China?
Can anyone suggest what I need to do to remedy the problem?
I have no idea what extra information is relevant, so I have not tried
to provide any. If some Good Samaritan would like more information
about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to
supply it.
I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping lacunae
in my knowledge, so please be patient with me.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. I originally posted this query to texhax, but was told that this is a
Fedora issue not a texlive issue, and that I should post to this list.
R. T.
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