[R] Installing texlive dependencies

[Petar Milin]

Thanks very much! However, I tried with that
(ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2011 /usr/share/texmf)
without luck. yum is still asking for a list of dependencies, including
several texlive files.

All the best,
Petar

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 08:58 -0400, Randy Johnson wrote:
> 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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