[XeTeX] Fwd: xetex and friends for fedora 8
Kirk Lowery
empirical.humanist at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 22:44:18 CET 2008
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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*
Oh. I didn't do it that way. Heh. It didn't occur to me because it
wasn't until I found the packages on rpmfind that I knew that they
were even there. I started off by looking for texlive in the f8 repos
as I usually look for things.
But, then, that command would have installed *all* the development
texlive packages, right? I generally try not to mix releases, except
if there is no other way...
I'll file this away for future reference. Thanks!
Kirk
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