Thanks Jeff for the link. I will take a look at it. Hopefully 2012 is on its way. -Daniel.
On 22 May 2013 02:41, Jeffrey Anderson <jdander...@lbl.gov> wrote: > Somewhere along the line they broke out the packages into many > subpackages, so you'll probably need many of them, but not necessarily all. > > To add the repo to your system do this: > > rpm -Uvh > http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/texlive-release-2011.el6.noarch.rpm > > Then you should be able to just 'yum install' what you need. > I'd start with "yum install texlive-2011" then see what else you need. As > I mentioned, I haven't done this myself on SL6. > > Jeff > > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:36 AM, W K Daniel PUN <danielw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks Jeff. >> >> It seems that the link you provided contains the whole distribution of >> texlive (over hundred texlive*). My system only has 19 texlive* as below. >> >> # rpm -aq | grep --colour=always texlive* >> texlive-2007-57.el6_2.x86_64 >> texlive-context-2007-57.el6_2.x86_64 >> texlive-texmf-xetex-2007-38.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-latex-2007-38.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-errata-2007-7.1.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-errata-dvips-2007-7.1.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-errata-latex-2007-7.1.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-errata-context-2007-7.1.el6.noarch >> texlive-dvips-2007-57.el6_2.x86_64 >> texlive-texmf-dvips-2007-38.el6.noarch >> texlive-utils-2007-57.el6_2.x86_64 >> texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-38.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-2007-38.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-7.1.el6.noarch >> texlive-xetex-2007-57.el6_2.x86_64 >> texlive-latex-2007-57.el6_2.x86_64 >> texlive-texmf-errata-xetex-2007-7.1.el6.noarch >> texlive-texmf-context-2007-38.el6.noarch >> >> May not be a good idea to download them one by one. How do update the >> whole distribution? >> >> Also, should remove the texlive-2007 before update to texlive-2011? >> >> -Daniel. >> >> >> >> >> On 21 May 2013 02:12, Jeffrey Anderson <jdander...@lbl.gov> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeffrey Anderson | jdander...@lbl.gov > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | > Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 > Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204 >
