tetex FC6
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Feb 4 00:09:29 UTC 2007
Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> as a TeX user I very puzzled using TeX/LaTeX under FC6:
> teTeX is no longer being maintained. It is quite old now.
> Updating it to a modern TeX system is recommended.
>
> They (Fedora) are looking into a way to package TeXLive for Fedora, but
> until they have one, I would suggest using TeXLive.
>
> TeXLive 2005 is newer than teTeX as far as macros go, but TeXLive 2007
> will be released very soon (I believe they are targeting the 10th but
> not positive).
>
> My installation notes for a test release are here:
> http://mpeters.us/tplinux/thinkpad.html#texlive
>
> Since TeXLive is very self contained in how it installs, it will be
> trivial to just remove it and replace it with whatever Fedora replaces
> teTeX with when they do, if you choose to do so.
While I don't disagree with this,
I very much doubt if anything this dramatic is needed
to solve the OP's problems.
I use the teTeX that comes with Fedora-6 quite a lot,
and it works perfectly well for me.
I don't think it is nearly as easy as you suggest
to replace teTeX by TeXLive.
In my view, it would be unwise for the OP to follow your advice.
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