[R] Problem with inconsolata font (again) --- on Fedora 17 this time.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 11/01/2013 01:50, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Some while ago I posted a problem on this list concerning a failure of
> R CMD check on one of my packages that resulted from LaTeX being
> unable to find the "inconsolata" font.  This was under the Ubuntu OS.
>
> This was solved, thanks to advice I got from this list, basically by
> doing
>
>      sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra
>
> I am now (for reasons which I won't go into) running Fedora 17, on a
> different computer.  Now LaTeX cannot find the necessary inconsolata.sty
> file.
>
> I googled around a bit, and an item I found led me to check whether I
> actually had texlive installed on my (new) system.  I hadn't!!!  So I did
>
>      sudo yum install texlive
>
> and that seemed to work.  But then the item I'd found indicated that I
> should do
>
>      sudo yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font
>
> But I got:
>
>> No package texlive-inconsolata, available.
>> No package texlive-inconsolata-font available.
>
> I also tried
>
>      sudo yum install texlive-fonts-extra
>
> with a similar result.
>
> Can anyone give me a simple recipe as to how to get the inconsolata font
> and the associated inconsolata.sty?

Install texlive 2012.  The texlive version in Fedora (<= 17, and 17 is 
the current release with 18 having been delayed yet again) is many years 
out of date (2007: this is 2013!), and you will save yourself a lot of 
other problems.

>
> Thanks.
>
>      cheers,
>
>          Rolf Turner
>
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