problems with texlive, texlive not ready yet
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 23 15:38:14 UTC 2007
Hi,
----- Original Message ----
From: Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>
To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
Cc: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:00:35 AM
Subject: Re: problems with texlive, texlive not ready yet
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 05:11:52AM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>
> > To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:56:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: problems with texlive, texlive not ready yet
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:30:46PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > in anticipation of the arrival of the new TeXLive system replacing tetex in our machines, I have
> > > tried to install texlive according to the wiki instructions. Here is what I have done
> > >
> > > http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031//texlivenotready.htm
> >
> > Why did you try to remove tetex first? It shouldn't be needed as texlive obsoletes tetex.
> > Looking more closely on the log, it seems you hit another rpm/yum provides/obsoletes
> > problem.
> >
> > texlive contains:
> > Obsoletes: tetex-dvips <= 3.0
> > Provides: tetex-dvips = 3.1
> >
> > so that tetex-dvips should be correctly obsoleted by texlive-dvips.
> > I'm currently confused why it doesn't work for you.
> >
> > Jindrich
> >
> > --
> > Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
>
>
> Why did I try to remove tetex first?
>
> Nope I tried to do it the way suggested by the wiki, since it did not work, I tried to remove it in hopes that texlive would overwrite tetex like the wiki says, but it did not happen. Which way should I try to correct this issue?
I was successful to workaround it by enabling the repository and just doing "yum update",
then everything ran smoothly and tetex was correctly obsoleted by texlive.
Jindrich
--
Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
TexLive is installed. Thanks to all for helping.
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa texlive*
texlive-texmf-dvips-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-errata-2007-0.9.fc7
texlive-texmf-latex-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-xdvi-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-errata-common-2007-0.9.fc7
texlive-dvips-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-0.9.fc7
texlive-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-common-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-fonts-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-latex-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-errata-latex-2007-0.9.fc7
texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-0.10.fc7
texlive-texmf-errata-dvips-2007-0.9.fc7
Regards,
Antonio
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