[XeTeX] can not build xetex0.998.3

[Mi CHEN]

Congratulations!

But I think we'd better use normal texlive distribution, I mean the
.iso, in stead of pre-complied packages by linux distributor :)

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:58 PM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
<chandra at ee.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
>
>> I have one suggestion, though. I had to uninstall both texlive-full and
>> texlive-xetex to install
>>
>> texlive-xetex-snapshot_698_i386.deb
>>
>> In the process, 46 other packages installed under texlive-full have now become
>> redundant and will be removed on apt-get update/upgrade sessions. I do not want
>> to remove them.
>>
>> Is it possible to make the new package more of a drop-in replacement for
>> texlive-xetex so that texlive-full need not be removed in the process?
>
> Perhaps the above is not necessary.
>
> Thanks to Jonathan, I have just found out that the SVN sources may be compiled
> and installed using
>
> ./build-xetex
> sudo install-xetex
>
> and that the result peacefully co-exists with the standard Ubuntu texlive-2007
> packages.
>
> Chandra
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Regards,
Mi