>From 093da12a7fea59ddddf2c1cac6a4ad878aed14af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 00:40:03 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 3/9] FAQ-BUILD: Add note on Fedora 28, 27, and other Linux distros Also remove out-of-date info on RHEL and Fedora. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> --- FAQ-BUILD.txt | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/FAQ-BUILD.txt b/FAQ-BUILD.txt index bf81a85..6faa705 100644 --- a/FAQ-BUILD.txt +++ b/FAQ-BUILD.txt @@ -56,27 +56,30 @@ You might need to fetch a version of a2ping which is compatible with Ghostscript 9.22. See #7 below. - On Fedora 26, installing the following set of packages - suffices: - texlive-a2ping fig2ps graphviz inkscape + On Fedora 28 and 27, installing the following set of + packages suffices: + texlive-collection-binextra texlive-collection-latexextra + texlive-collection-fontsextra + fig2ps graphviz inkscape - Other systems might provide similarly named packages. - For example, Doug Miller noted that the following list - of teTeX components worked for him on RHEL5: + You need to install a version of a2ping compatible + with Ghostscript 9.22 or later. See #7 below. - tetex tetex-afm tetex-dvips tetex-latex latex2html - texinfo tetex-fonts tetex-doc tetex-xdvi + On other Linux distributions such as RHEL/CentOS and + Scientific Linux, where support of TeX Live packages + is insufficient, manually installing TeX Live should + be a reasonable choice. + See: https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html - For another example, Frederic Weisbecker reports that - the following packages allows perfbook to be built on - Fedora 19: + NOTE: In doing so, you might end up in having + redundant texlive packages of your choise + of distribution to satisfy dependency + of other packages. - texlive-latex texlive-collection-latexextra - psutils texlive-math* texlive-bibtex latex2html - xfig (and maybe also gnuplot-latex - texlive-publishers-doc texlive-fonts-extra - texlive-science). + Besides TeX Live, you need the following list of + packages: + fig2ps graphviz inkscape 6. I cannot build perfbook, and the perfbook.log file complains about some obscure package being missing. What do I do? @@ -111,9 +114,9 @@ install those packages? A. The simplest approach is to upgrade to a recent TeX - distribution such as TeX Live 2016. Upgrading your Linux - distribution (e.g. to Ubuntu Xenial) is one way to - upgrade TeX Live (to 2015 on Xenial), and might have many + distribution such as TeX Live 2018. Upgrading your Linux + distribution (e.g. to Ubuntu Bionic) is one way to + upgrade TeX Live (to 2017 on Bionic), and might have many other benefits as well. However, if you prefer to manually install individual -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe perfbook" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
