[luatex] Package luamplib

[Zvi Gilboa]

This is indeed embarrassing, however in my humble opinion, TeXLive 
should not be shipping with Ubuntu at all, as it is the source of many 
potential disasters.  One trivial example: suppose that you use a 
different TeX distribution, or simply opt for a "manual" installation of 
(the current version of) TeXLive, as many people (myself included)do.  
You might then decide to install a random TeX-related package -- be it 
an editor, a font, or anything else for that matter -- just to realize 
that Ubuntu thinks it should now install the whole TeX-system shebang 
for you...

Best regards,
Zvi Gilboa






On 07/19/2012 03:59 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2012/7/18 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
>
>> BTW, the problem you encountered seems to be caused by a bug rather
>> than a compatibility problem.  Obviously the comment character was
>> ignored.  However, it's fixed already in newer releases.
>>
>>   > What's the easiest solution, short of "Update your whole
>>   > installation to the latest TeXLive"?
>>
>> Please note that in order to upgrade from TL-2011 to TL-2012 you don't
>> have to install everything from scratch anymore:
>>
>>    http://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html
>>
>> You could probably install a newer LuaTeX binary into your current
>> installation, but I fear that everything you do beyond the package
>> manager's neck will cause trouble former or later.  In particular,
>> if your system is inconsistent, nobody can reproduce your problems.
>>
> Can you believe it, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" released
> April 2012 ships with TeXLive 2009.
>
> Dirk