[R-sig-Fedora] Installing texlive dependencies

[Petar Milin]

I did not want to offend anyone, or someone's effort. I wrote that I
tried it with F15, which is a time ago. Sorry if I sounded rude!
Anyway, it could be that TeXLive 2011 is working better now, but the
question remains: R will ask for the dependencies, since TeXLive 2011,
even from repositories, will install in different directory, not the
'/usr/share/texmf'. What to do with this issue?

Thanks!
PM

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:18 +0100, Johannes Lips wrote:
> This repo works totally fine for me for a couple of months now, so I
> don't think it's that bad.
> And the people working on it trying hard to make the Texlive
> experience on fedora better...
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Petar Milin <pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs>
> wrote:
>         
>         Yes, I tried that alternative repo with F15, but it is quite
>         messy. If
>         you read carefully various posts, then you will realize that
>         the right
>         way is to use CTAN installation, not what is offered under
>         Fedora's
>         umbrella, so to say. TeXLive in Fedora seems to be in a
>         sorrowful state.
>         
>         Best,
>         PM
>         
>         On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:07 +0100, Johannes Lips wrote:
>         > Check out this page, it also offers a repo for texlive 2011
>         on f16.
>         > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive
>         >
>         > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Petar Milin
>         <pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs>
>         > wrote:
>         >         Hello ALL!
>         >         I am running Fedora 16 x86_64. Due to some dubious
>         problems,
>         >         that i
>         >         couldn't resolve, 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 of
>         the Tex
>         >         2007
>         >         (/usr/share/texmf/). But, I defined PATH properly:
>         >         PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86-64-linux:$PATH
>         >         Also, I have tried with the symbolic link:
>         >         ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2011 /usr/share/texmf
>         >
>         >         So, I wonder why R asks for those TeX-packages? Can
>         I tell it
>         >         where to
>         >         look? In any case, how to fix this mess?
>         >
>         >         Thanks in advance,
>         >         Petar
>         >
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