SL6 ships with texlive 2007. As you have found this is somewhat old, but it's what TUV provides, so it's what we get.
I notice that the fedora texlive yum repo has EL6 packages for texlive 2011. You may want to try that, though I have not tested them myself. You can find the packages here: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/packages.el6/ I have installed packages from this site to upgrade the native texlive on fedora, but haven't tried the el6 packages. Jeff On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:34 AM, W K Daniel PUN <danielw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you very much for all those who have replied my query. > > I did install "TeX support" when I installed SL 6.4., but have found that > the LaTeX system has not been completely installed. What I mean is that > some style files *.sty or *.dtx are missing or out of date. I need to get > them from ctan.org or somewhere else. For example, I recently compiled a > package that needs to use "hyperref", but I got a lot of errors, because > the hyerref is the system is old version (2007/02/07 v6.75r), I need to > obtain a new version (2012/11/06 v6.83m) from ctan.org and installed it. > After installing the new version of hyperref, I got a lot of style file > missing. It took me a while to work out what I need is the "oberdiek" > package. > > I am not sure how the LaTeX community works, but assume that when all new > packages, style files, *.ins *.dtx, new version files are stored in > ctan.org. There should be a way to install/update a complete (with all > existing packages, new packages, and new version packages) TeX distribution > on SL. It seems other platforms can do that. > > > For example, hyperref ctan.or > > > On 19 May 2013 04:09, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:12 PM, W K Daniel PUN <danielw...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I haven't been able to find a way to install the whole comprehensive >> > TeX/LaTeX distribution on Scientific Linux. >> > >> > Does anyone have a clue? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > -Daniel. >> >> Start with the "tetex" components in the yum repository? If those >> aren't complete, you can also look at the tetex and tetex-tex4ht >> SRPM's and see what packages are listed in their .spec files, or build >> them and see what you get. >> > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | jdander...@lbl.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204
