texlive problems

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 14:17:35 UTC 2008


2008/6/17 Norman Gaywood <ngaywood at une.edu.au>:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229180
>
> Interesting read. That thread seems to indicate that the problem has
> been fixed upstream and it was touch and go if the update would make it
> to the first release of F9. Seems this problem will go away eventually.
>

It may have been forgotten by the packager - I recommend you file a
bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com about this.

[snip]

>> 3. There seems to be a problem with pdf metapost processing. I haven't
>> tracked this down fully yet but a collection of metapost and latex files
>> that process correctly with tetex, produces this:
>> $ pdflatex premath.tex
>
>> ! Package graphics Error: Cannot convert premath-1.mps from MPS to PDF.
>> (graphics)                The support file `supp-pdf.tex' is missing.
>
> Still no solution for this. However,
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:26:30PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> $ rpm -qf `locate supp-pdf`
>> texlive-texmf-doc-2007-17.fc9.noarch
>
> locate supp-pdf
>
> finds:
>
> /usr/share/texmf/doc/pdftex/manual/samplepdf/supp-pdf.tex
>
> as part of the texlive-texmf-doc-2007-17.fc9 package. This path is not
> searched in normal latex processing.
>

This seems like a bug, please report this at bugzilla as well.


J.




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