[XeTeX] Fwd: xetex and friends for fedora 8

[Kirk Lowery]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

No. When I tried to "yum install texlive-xetex" the install died with
a dependency error. The deps are f9 rpms and don't exist in the f8
repos. I had to use rpmfind to get them and install them manually.
With the dvipdfmx rpm, the install ran fine. But xelatex would not,
complaining that there was no xdvipdfmx. When I looked at the dvipdfmx
package, there was no xdvipdfmx binary. I found an f9 xdvipdfmx
package, installed it and was in business.

Kirk