[texworks] 'No SyncTex data available', Xunbuntu 9.10, TeXWorks 0.3 ver 571

[Paul A Norman]

Dear Bruno,

Thanks for that.

Slightly off topic but ...
The latest I have been able to install so far is 2009-07, is there a
add-apt-repository ppa: for the November one please?

Paul

On 5 April 2010 03:01, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at me.com> wrote:
> Le 4 avr. 2010 à 14:54, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>
>> On Apr 4, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Alain Delmotte wrote:
>>
>>> From the file install-tl.txt:
>>> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>>> # $Id: install-tl 17455 2010-03-14 15:52:58Z preining $
>>> #
>>> # Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Reinhard Kotucha, Norbert Preining
>>> # This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
>>> # or any later version.
>>>
>>> It looks like it already is 2010.
>>> Now I'll have to look how to "downgrade".
>>
>> Well, since 2009 came out late in in 2009 and scripts have been updated as time went on it isn't surprising that some scripts have a 2010 Copyright date although they are for 2009.
>
> The latest TeX Live release is 2009 (released early November 2009). Included is tlmgr (TeX Live Manager), able to perform various tasks one of which is updating the TeX Live installation. tlmgr can be run in command-line mode, and has an X11 GUI.
>
> What you're seeing is most likely the result of an update through tlmgr. I don't know whether the updates can be performed automatically, or whether you must have run tlmgr yourself at some point (for example installing a new package).
>
> On the Mac, MacTeX-2009 includes a Cocoa front-end TeX Live Utility to tlmgr. I'm runnning it regularly for updates and package management, and have exactly the same as you in /usr/local/texlive/2009/install-tl:
>
> # $Id: install-tl 17455 2010-03-14 15:52:58Z preining $
> #
> # Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Reinhard Kotucha, Norbert Preining
> # This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
> # or any later version.
>
> Reaarding SyncTeX, if memory serves right it was only included in TeX Live from 2008 onwards, so it's quite normal you can't have it with TeX Live 2007.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>