No worries, Herb, I took it as recommendation in any case :) K
>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM, in message <ad480961-1d22-4b77-b14a-513c8ea30...@wideopenwest.com>, Herbert Schulz <he...@wideopenwest.com> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> >> >> Dominik Wujastyk wrote: >> >>> There's an issue here, Phil, about where and how Karljurgen got his >>> distribution. If he got it through the Ubuntu aptitude system, or >>> similar, then he'll have got the original first release of TL2010, >>> without any of the updates that have been issued since its first >>> release. The Ubuntu built-in distro of TL doesn't get regular, >>> automatic updates. Basically, if you get your TL through the >>> debian/aptitude pipeline, then you have one version of everything for a >>> year, until TL2011 comes out. >>> >>> Using tlmgr means unintalling the whole TeXlive system from Ubuntu - >>> using the aptitude interface. Then you have to reinstall everything >>> again over the net (here >>> <http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html>). It's not hard, >>> but it's a bit daunting for beginners. >> >> Hmm, maybe the TeX Live team need to be more pro-active in >> determining what can, and what cannot, be called "TeX Live". >> A user who gets TeX Live as a part of his O/S distribution >> should surely be entitled to believe that what he has is >> TeX Live, not some packager's variant thereof. >> >> ** Phil. > > Howdy, > > I'd guess it IS TeX Live and not a variant. The problem is that TeX Live > 2010 was frozen well before distribution and packages have been updated since > that time. Some of them bug fixes and needing necessary dependency updates > too. Sorry for the tlmgr comment but I was thinking of a straight TeX Live > distribution. > > Good Luck, > > Herb Schulz > (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
