[XeTeX] Fwd: xetex and friends for fedora 8

[Neal Becker]

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Friday 14 March 2008, Kirk Lowery wrote:
>  >  > Fedora will be moving to TeXLive eventually, from what I hear, but
>  >  > until then installing TeXLive along with teTeX is problematic.
>  >  >
>  >  > Does anyone have experience with xetex on a Fedora system? Is there a
>  >  > recommended rpm? How best can xetex co-exist with teTeX right now?
>  >  >
>  >  > TIA!
>  >  >
>  >  > Kirk
>  > >
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>  >  I'm using texlive from F9 on F8.  Works pretty well so far.
>
>  Update: I followed the instructions and downloaded texlive rpms for
>  F8. It turns out they've unbundled xetex from texlive, so one has to
>  install 'texlive-xetex' packages. But the problems didn't end there.
>  There is a dependency on a 'dvipdfmx', which is not in the F8
>  repositories. I had to download it from the F9 'rawhide' repo. But
>  xelatex would not work. Reason: it wants xdvipdfmx and that, too, was
>  only in the rawhide repo. Anyway, it works now, and hopefully the
>  upgrade path is painless...
>
Didn't yum install texlive* pull in the deps for you?