[XeTeX] TL2008 on Ubuntu

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>>
>> What would be the best way to install TL2008 on Ubuntu. My Ubuntu
>> version Intrepid system comes with a nice;y packaged 2007.dfsg By the
>> looks of it at launchpad, Ubuntu version Jaunty (April release) will
>> still be at TL2007, only a minor patchlevel version higher. Se
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin
>>
>> Will TL2008 be backported soon or which alternative ways exist to upgrade?
>>

I'm running ubuntu and it seems almost certain to me that TL2008 will
not be backported
because packagers are still figuring how to incorporate the TL package
installer.  I've been a little surprised, but before you get
discouraged, think of this.  On the Centos & RedHat Enterprise linux
systems I administer, they are still offering only tetex. So it could
be worse :)

If you just want the newer XeTeX to drop into your TL2007, there is a
deb for ubuntu already available.

I learned about it in this list, the deb I downloaded is from a few weeks ago:

texlive-xetex-snapshot_881_i386.deb

I think this is the place:

http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/~wolinski/xetex/

But I do not know very much about how these packages are built or what
the provider is assuming...

pj

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