tex-live

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 08:19 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> > On 10/27/2009 12:10 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> In fedora 11, it is still the version 2007 of tex-live which available.
> >> When 2008 is going to be available ?
> >> Can I just install it from the tex-live-2008.iso image ?
> >>
> >> thank
> >>
> >
> > As to when, I wish I knew.
> >
> > However, I have installed from the iso, and it puts everything in
> > /usr/local, so its 'safe' to use.
> 
> This is my experience. If you are a serious tex user, and disk space
> isn't an issue, it's much more convenient to just install TeXLive
> completely, rather than to have to know which packages are grouped
> into which rpm. It's far more convenient than using the Fedora rpms.
> And more uptodate.
> 
> And TeXLive 2009 is supposed to be just days away from release, with a
> decent updater.

TeXLive2009 is targeted for Fedora 13.  Meanwhile, you can track the
major new Fedora packaging initiative and help test here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive.



> 
> Kirk
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                Matthew Saltzman

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