[texhax] Installing texlive.

[David Martens]

-----Original Message-----
From: Rolf Turner [mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz] 
Sent: 11 April 2013 07:57 AM
To: texhax at tug.org
Subject: [texhax] Installing texlive.


I'm running under Fedora 17.  I have recently had problems with running latex on a file that previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with.  (A while back I had to switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.)

I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness by re-installing texlive.

I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from

     http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html

unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed

     ./install.tl

as per instructions.  I got an error message:
> Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./tlpkg
> /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
> /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199.
> Compilation failed in require at ./install-tl line 53.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./install-tl line 53.

I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me.

I presume that I need to update *something* w.r.t. perl, but it is not at all clear to me what I need to do.  Doing yum search perl gave a plethora of hits; yum search perl5 basically turned up perl-pgsql_perl5.x86_64. What has pgsql got to do with the price of eggs in China?

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to remedy the problem?

I have no idea what extra information is relevant, so I have not tried to provide any.  If some Good Samaritan would like more information about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to supply it.

I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping lacunae in my knowledge, so please be patient with me.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner

Google finds this:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60007/problem-with-texlive-installation-on-fedora-17


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