[luatex] Package luamplib

[Robin Fairbairns]

Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie at gmail.com> 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.

i know that.  i have such a system ... with a tl2012 installation on a
/local directory.

we're told that U12.10 will ship with tl2012, but fedora's tempting.
(unfortunately i don't trust my creaking old brain to look after a
system that's no longer supported by the department -- it's centos or
ubuntu here or you're on your own.  centos has frozen a similarly
ancient version of tl.)

robin the grumpy tex user under linux