Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

[Rolf Turner]

I'm not completely sure if I installed texlive using yum, or if texlive came
with the initial install of Fedora 17.  My vague recollection is that 
there was
a latex facility that came with Fedora 17 but it was incomplete, and that
I did indeed do "yum install texlive" to fix things up.

Now when I do "yum install texlive" it tells me that I have the latest 
version
and that there is nothing to do.

*BUT* there are flakes.  Toy example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{isodate}
\cleanlookdateon
\begin{document}
Today's date is: \today.
\end{document}

When I run latex I get the error:

! LaTeX Error: File `isodate.sty' not found.

But if I ask (in the shell) "locate isodate" I get:

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/isodate
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/isodate

However the directory /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/isodate
is empty.

I thought that this might be rectified by doing an install from the
texlive web site.  But then I (as described in my initial post) got stymied
by a deficiency in my system in respect of perl.

Now that I look, it seems that almost all of the directories in
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex are empty.  (There are
exceptions, e.g. amsmath.)

Is there some incantation that I can invoke, via yum, to get these
directories filled up?

Thanks.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner

On 04/11/2013 09:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/11/13 17:03, 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
> How had you installed texlive previously on F17?
>
> Did you not install it with
>
> yum install texlive
>
> for a reason?
>
>> 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.
> yum install perl-Digest-MD5 will get you Digest/MD5.pm
>
>> I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me.
>>
>> I presume that I need to update *something* w.r.t. perl, but it is not at all
>> clear to me what I need to do.  Doing "yum search perl" gave a plethora of
>> hits.   I have no idea which are the relevant ones.  Then "yum search perl5"
>> basically turned up perl-pgsql_perl5.x86_64. What  has pgsql got to do with
>> the price of eggs in China?
>>
>> Can anyone suggest what I need to do to remedy the problem?
>>
>> I have no idea what extra information is relevant, so I have not tried
>> to provide any.  If some Good Samaritan would like more information
>> about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to
>> supply it.
>>
>> I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping lacunae
>> in my knowledge, so please be patient with me.
>>
>>      cheers,
>>
>>          Rolf Turner
>>
>> P. S. I originally posted this query to texhax, but was told that this is a
>> Fedora issue not a texlive issue, and that I should post to this list.
>>
>>          R. T.