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Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with
running latex on a file that<br>
previously (under Ubuntu) I had no
difficulty with. (A while back I had to<br>
switch from Ubuntu to Fedora
for reasons that I won't go into here.)
<br>
<br>
I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness
<br>
by re-installing texlive.
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I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html">http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html</a>
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unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed
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<br>
./install.tl
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<br>
as per instructions. I got an error message:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Can't locate
Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./tlpkg
/usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
line 199.
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BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line
199.
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Compilation failed in require at ./install-tl line 53.
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BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./install-tl line 53.
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</blockquote>
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I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me.
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I presume that I need to update <b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>something<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
w.r.t. perl, but it is not at all
<br>
clear to me what I need to do. Doing "yum search perl" gave a
plethora of
<br>
hits. I have no idea which are the relevant ones. Then "yum
search perl5"<br>
basically turned up perl-pgsql_perl5.x86_64. What
has pgsql got to do with<br>
the price of eggs in China?
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Can anyone suggest what I need to do to remedy the problem?
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I have no idea what extra information is relevant, so I have not
tried
<br>
to provide any. If some Good Samaritan would like more information
<br>
about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to
<br>
supply it.
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<br>
I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping
lacunae
<br>
in my knowledge, so please be patient with me.
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<br>
cheers,
<br>
<br>
Rolf Turner<br>
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P. S. I originally posted this query to texhax, but was told that
this is a<br>
Fedora issue not a texlive issue, and that I should post to this
list.<br>
<br>
R. T.<br>
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