EPEL texlive in 7

Susi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 1 10:58:36 UTC 2014


On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:52:17 +0200
Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 April 2014 11:42, Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Ok, I found the issue. The texlive in EPEL 7 is too old and does not
> > > contain the sub-packages I'm using.
> > > I hope they will update it before release; texlive 2013 was released mid
> > > 2013 and we're now in 2014.
> >
> > You can probably forget about that hope - they're not going to do a
> > major update, certainly not after the beta release.
> >
> 
> Yeah, definitely. RHEL 6 was providing tetex/tetex-latex, Fedora ships
> texlive that provides them, and RHEL 7 sits in the middle, there is no
> tetex/tetex-latex and texlive does not provide them. Sigh.

Uhm, so this is just about a virtual Provides?

TeXLive *does* have latex. Just install texlive-latex.
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Susi Lehtola
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