Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

[Rolf Turner]

No.  I certainly ***DID NOT*** "expect it to work with pdflatex"!!!  Please
read what I wrote.   It's very irritating to be taken for a moron when 
one is
only an idiot studying hard to be a moron and flunking the course!

I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex".  
I did
"latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and got the error that I reported.

But there are two further things to note:

(1) Looking more closely at the screen output from the latex command
I see now that it starts with

     "This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)
       restricted \write18 enabled."

I then did "which latex" and got, as expected (since I'd made the 
appropriate
modification to my PATH) /usr/local/texlive /2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex.

So I looked at /usr/local/texlive /2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex and this 
turns
out to be a symbolic link to /usr/local/texlive 
/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex.

So it seems that I was inadvertently using *pdftex*.  This seems to be
simply what happens under texlive2012.

(2) Now here's the ***REALLY WEIRD THING***:   I have not changed
*anything* about my set-up since my previous post on this topic. I swear
to God!!! Yet now when I do

     latex demo

I no longer get the error message that I previously got.  How could this 
*possibly*
happen?  It couldn't.  But it did.

Redoing "latex demo" eliminated some warning messages that appeared, doing
"dvips demo" runs without any sort of problem.

But then doing "ps2pdf demo" produces the error:

> Error: /undefinedfilename in (demo)
> Operand stack:
>
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval-- --nostringval--   
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push --nostringval--   
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false 1   %stopped_push
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1168/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really 
means
***latex*** and not "pdftex".  How the hell do I arrange that?

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner


On 04/12/2013 09:23 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:46:52PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> First, I am not a Latex user.....  But decided to try your demo
>> file.... on an F17 system where I installed using yum...  I "think" it
>> is OK?
>>
>> [egreshko at f17x ~]$ latex demo.tex
> [...]
>
> I think the OP expected it to work with pdflatex.  The document class he
> is using is incompatible with pdflatex and has to processed the old
> school way.  At least that is what I found from my test[1].
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] <http://mid.gmane.org/20130412063253.GA5690@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com>