[Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

[François Patte]

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Le 25/01/2011 11:46, Walter Cazzola a écrit :
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mohamed El Morabity wrote:
> 
>> Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 13:55 +0100, Walter Cazzola a écrit :
> 
>> a solution could be to build an empty RPM that will simply contain a
>> "Provides: texlive > 2007" or something like this to fool Fedora
>> packages requiring a LaTeX distribution.
> 
> Your idea looks interesting but doesn't work. I've just installed (as
> yum localinstall) the rpm generated by the attached rpm and when I try
> to install a2ps I get:
> 
>  Dependencies Resolved
> 
> Any other suggestion?

Get the rpm package of a2ps and install it with

rpm -ivh a2ps.xxx.rpm --nodeps

And see if a2ps works.

BTW why do you want a2ps it is quite obsolete now for it is unable to
handle utf-8 encodage.

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François Patte
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Université Paris Descartes
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http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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