[XeTeX] Debian/Ubuntu packages with SVN XeTeX

[Peter Baker]

Oh excellent: I've wished for this for a long time. Thanks very much!

Peter

Marcin Woliński wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> If anyone is interested, here is a Debian/Ubuntu package with newest SVN
> version (well, the version from yesterday :-) of XeTeX:
>
> http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/~wolinski/xetex/
>
> Building these packages is very simple, so I intend to do that regularly
> (if I don't, kick me).
>
> The package name is texlive-xetex-snapshot and the version is just the
> SVN release number.  The package expects TeXlive 2007 as its
> environment.  It replaces the package texlive-xetex (you cannot have
> both TL7 and SVN XeTeX at the same time).
>
> To use this package on Debian 4.0 ‘etch’ one needs Norbert Preining’s
> packages with TeXlive 2007 (see http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html).
> That is what I use.
>
> On Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 it works with TeXlive provided in the
> distribution.
>
> For me the SVN XeTeX works quite stable, but be warned: this is a build
> of the development version.
>
> Best,
> Marcin
>
>
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