[XeTeX] Fwd: xetex and friends for fedora 8

[Neal Becker]

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> 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. 

I meant:

yum --enablerepo=development install texlive*