On Saturday 26 June 2010 07:15 PM, Shrisha Rao wrote:
Ubuntu has been well-known to include an out-of-date TeX Live (I think 2007!) with many long-resolved issues. It is also problematic to install TeX Live or some parts of it separately if one has already installed the TeX packages made available by the distro, as all sorts of things break (or will suddenly break when there is some package update). The tlmgr utility also conflicts with the distro's own package update feature so is typically unavailable.
On K/Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) I can trivially install via gui or command line texlive packages currently bearing version number 2009-7ubuntu3.
FWIW, maintaining two separate TeXLive distributions, one from the K/Ubuntu packages and another from the CTAN TeXLive repository is likely to be problem prone. After installing the K/Ubuntu packages, one simply updates and upgrades them with apt-get rather than running tlmgr.
Your comments above do not come within the ambit of my experience. -- Chandra -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
