[R] Installing texlive dependencies

[Randy Johnson]

I can't make any guaranties, but placing a symbolic link at /usr/share/texmf, pointing at /usr/local/texlive/2011 might do the trick. It's a bit of a hack, but that often works for me.

Best,
Randy

On Apr 18, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Petar Milin wrote:

> Hello ALL!
> I am running Fedora 16 x86_64. Due to some dubious problems with the
> TeXLive (2007, which is a default), I removed it. That removed R as
> well, and some other dependent packages. Then, I installed TeXLive 2011
> from CTAN. However, when I wanted to install R, from Fedora's
> repositories, it asks for some TeX dependencies (for example,
> tex-preview, texinfo-tex, texlive, texlive-dvips etc.).
> I know that new TeX is installed in other place
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/), than the old, default, Tex 2007
> (/usr/share/texmf/). But, I defined PATH properly:
> PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86-64-linux:$PATH
> So, I wonder why R asks for those TeX-packages? Can I tell it where to
> look?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> PM
> 
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