On Saturday 27 June 2009 13:41:42 Jindrich Novy wrote: > 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.rp >m > > 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 This is what I get after yum update Error: Missing Dependency: tetex >= 3.0 is needed by package jadetex-3.13-5.fc11.noarch (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex-latex >= 3.0 is needed by package jadetex-3.13-5.fc11.noarch (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex is needed by package texinfo- tex-4.13a-2.fc11.i586 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex-dvips is needed by package docbook-utils- pdf-0.6.14-16.fc11.noarch (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: libkpathsea.so.4 is needed by package dvipdfm-0.13.2d-40.fc11.i586 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex-latex is needed by package a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.i586 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex-dvips is needed by package a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.i586 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: libkpathsea.so.4 is needed by package evince- dvi-2.26.2-1.fc11.i586 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex-latex is needed by package R- devel-2.9.0-2.fc11.i586 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: tetex-fonts is needed by package a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.i586 (installed) A missing Provides? -- José Abílio -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
