CTAN packages for Fedora

[Phil Meyer]

François Patte wrote:
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> Globe Trotter a écrit :
> | Hi all,
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> | Does anyone know if I can get RPMs of specific CTAN (LaTeX) packages
> on Fedora?
> | I am currently looking for marginnotes package, and I wanted to know
> if there
> | are RPMs around before I went ahead and installed it from the gz file.
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> Don't think so... To install (La)TeX packages you can download and
> install mpm:
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> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/miktex/miktex-tools-2.5.2719-beta-15.tar.gz?download 
>
>
> This utility do the job for you, ie.: install packages with "official"
> TDS in your /usr/local/share/texmf directory.
>
> It is easy to use:
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> mpm --install=marginnote
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> You just have to run texhash after install (or texhash, then updmap if
> you install fonts).
Thank YOU!

That helps a TON with a project I am working on.  I love the net. :)

Installed it and its working like a charm.

THANK YOU!!