On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:03:23 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote:
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
http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html
unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed
./install.tl
as per instructions. I got an error message:
> 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.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199.
> Compilation failed in require at ./install-tl line 53.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./install-tl line 53.
I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me.
Do you read from bottom to top? In the first line it says it cannot locate
Perl module Digest/MD5.pm, so that's what you should install first.
Package perl-Digest-MD5 (or whatever includes the needed module). You
may search remove package repositories with Yum or repoquery.
I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping
lacunae
in my knowledge, so please be patient with me.
I would begin with using the TeX Live that is included with Fedora 17,
install optional packages as needed and don't mix with stuff installed
from source.
# yum list texlive\*|wc -l
4770
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Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc19.x86_64
loadavg: 0.34 0.43 0.24