Quoting Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz>:
Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file
that
previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to
switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.)
I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness
by re-installing texlive.
I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from
Don't install stuff manually when things have already been packages.
Fedora 18 features a complete TeXLive 2012 distribution; you can also
get it on Fedora 17 by
# yum remove tex-* texlive-*
# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/texlive.repo <<EOF
[texlive]
name=texlive
baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.f17/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
# yum install texlive-scheme-full
after which you will have a full blown TeXLive install.
Alternatively, you can update to Fedora 18 and just do the last bit.
--
Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org