Good news everyone! I've invented a device that installs TeX Live 2008 on your Fedora! </futurama> TeX Live 2008 is now packaged and available for testing. It is not in Fedora yet because it requires reviews of couple of packages. But you can test it before it happens. If you want to give it a try, install this package: # rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/texlive-release-2008-1.fc11.noarch.rpm then you can do: # yum install texlive if you don't have texlive already installed. While upgrading from older texlive release please remove all the texlive packages before the upgrade, especially be sure that the /usr/share/texmf directory is removed. This is because the famous directory -> symlink upgrade RPM bug. The packaging follows upstream packaging metadata so basically you have the same package naming in upstream TeX Live. The fedora one is prefixed with the "texlive-*" prefix. Currently you can use metapackages to install TeX Live: texlive-scheme-basic texlive-scheme-context texlive-scheme-full texlive-scheme-gust texlive-scheme-gutenberg texlive-scheme-medium texlive-scheme-minimal texlive-scheme-omega texlive-scheme-tetex texlive-scheme-xml By default when you install TeX Live by "yum install texlive" the scheme-basic is pulled in. You can install collections as well, there are 84 of them, list is here: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/collections You can install the individual packages as well, complete list is here: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/pkgs For more information you can see the Feature page here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive I've put a lot of effort to reduce the total amount from ~4000 to the current ~1600 source RPMs that need to be reviewed and imported into Fedora. This is not an easy task but considering that all (except the main one) of them are automatically generated it could be possible. Note that it is in testing state so (many) bugs could occur. There are possible clashes with applications packaged separately (such as dvipdfmx, etc.) so we may want to discuss these conflicts with respective fedora package maintainers to fix them. In case you are a maintainer of such package please send me an email to jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx so that we can sort it out on the TeX Live side (packages maintained separately are preferred). Thanks, Jindrich -- Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
