[tex-live] TeXLive 2016 asymptote on archlinux

[Nikos Platis]

I would go for solution 3. All you need to do is install package
'texlive-dummy' from AUR, and then you can install 'asymptote' from Arch
repos.


Στις 17 Ιαν 2017 10:35 π.μ., ο χρήστης "Christophe Jorssen" <
christophe.jorssen at gmail.com> έγραψε:

> Hello all,
>
> I installed a vanilla TeXLive 2016 on my new archlinux laptop (long story:
> as my laptop is a brand new one, I had to switch from debian stable to
> archlinux to make it (simply) work. No expert of archlinux here!).
>
> When I invoke asy, I get this:
>
> christophe> asy
> asy: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> This is asy coming with TeXLive 2016:
>
> christophe> which asy
> /opt/texbin/asy
>
> christophe> find /opt/texbin/. -maxdepth 1 -type l -ls | grep asy
> 1710836      0 lrwxrwxrwx   1  root     root           38 août 14  2014
> /opt/texbin/./xasy -> ../../texmf-dist/asymptote/GUI/xasy.py
>
> I have a readline library :
>
>  christophe> ldconfig -p | grep readline
> libreadline.so.7 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.7
> libreadline.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libreadline.so
> libguilereadline-v-18.so.18 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-
> 18.so.18
> libguilereadline-v-18.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-
> 18.so
>
> but I guess it is the wrong one (numbers following 'so.' indicates
> version?).
>
> What should I do to make asy work?
>
> 1) Get the right lib? Where?
> 2) Compile it on my own. Ok, but I guess I still need the right readline
> lib? In addition, I'd like to install it as a "home" version inside my HOME
> texmf directory (BTW I asked a question about it:
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/347237/8425).
> 3) Install the archlinux package: https://www.
> archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/asymptote/. I guess it will work but
> before I'll have to fake a texlive package installation (/a la/ equivs)
> since texlive-core is a dependency and I don't know (yet) how to do it. So
> I'd rather go for an other solution.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Christophe
>
>
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