If texlive is such a can of worms, why not "downgrade" to tetex? That's still the RHEL tex solution. As a latex user, I noticed no functional difference between the two other than that I have to go re-setup local configuration stuff when fedora changed from tetex to texlive. Alec -- Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept. habig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list