[XeTeX] Fwd: xetex and friends for fedora 8
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 17:59:58 CET 2008
On Thursday 20 March 2008, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 14 March 2008, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> > > Fedora will be moving to TeXLive eventually, from what I hear, but
> > > until then installing TeXLive along with teTeX is problematic.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have experience with xetex on a Fedora system? Is there a
> > > recommended rpm? How best can xetex co-exist with teTeX right now?
> > >
> > > TIA!
> > >
> > > Kirk
> > >
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> > I'm using texlive from F9 on F8. Works pretty well so far.
>
> Update: I followed the instructions and downloaded texlive rpms for
> F8. It turns out they've unbundled xetex from texlive, so one has to
> install 'texlive-xetex' packages. But the problems didn't end there.
> There is a dependency on a 'dvipdfmx', which is not in the F8
> repositories. I had to download it from the F9 'rawhide' repo. But
> xelatex would not work. Reason: it wants xdvipdfmx and that, too, was
> only in the rawhide repo. Anyway, it works now, and hopefully the
> upgrade path is painless...
>
Didn't yum install texlive* pull in the deps for you?
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