Re: Q: How to satisfy LaTeX package requirements on Ubuntu 9.04?

On May 22, 3:09 pm, Sebastian Szwarc <beyond...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The texlive 2008 disk is a breeze to install, albeit that the DVD
should be mounted without --noexec, i.e. not what the Ubuntu desktop
does naturally.   Not a package, true.

There is a Publishing repository for OpenSuse11 and 11.1 where latest
TexLive should exist, however without tlmgr.
This is the case what I pointed somewhen on that list and got reply "Why
don't you help packaging instead of complaining?"

I think for many people it is very frustrating that MS Windows is
privileged despite constant talks about what advantages open source has
over commercial system.
TL group spend lot of effort and work to release TL2008 even for PowerPC
(btw WHY????, who uses powerpc? only owners of old Mac's and they are
pretty happy with his machines without tl09 :)) instead of encouraging
developers to do something for Linux world.

Sad thing is I think that people who knows Linux, doesnt understand TeX,
and those who develop TeX are not fully aware of Linux world. Sad, but true.

Installing texlive2008 from CD on Linux is IMO bad idea - that;s why
repositories are created and newest version of software should be placed
THERE because of dependancies.
If you install TL2008 from DVD and then you want to install e.g. Kile
dependancies forces system to download and install TL from the
repository , which may give conflilct with libraries, messing with
PATHS, and it is generally waste of space ( I dont agree with conclusion
"Space is cheap" - that kind of thinking result in bad optimization for
newest software. - MSDOS could run on 386 machines and today to emulate
DOS you need 1GHz processor :P)

Today I have problem on Ubuntu 9.04 to install even Kile from KDE3
instead of buggy KDE4 so I am not surprised that problem occurs.

For today, the best option should be installing Miktex-tools from
scratch on Ubuntu - however it is still Beta 2 and I got one error
during compilation,if Mr.Schenk correct this, it will be the best
solution for everyone who want have in his TeX installation only
nessecary things because at last installing "on-the-fly" is available on
Linux (thing, that developers of TL cannot do)

Best Regards
Sebastian Szwarc

Ubuntu overall is pretty good about package consistency and yes,
packages are preferable. But you can't always avoid downloading and
installing source, as with e.g. the torque package I downloaded for
Ubuntu 8.04 and which someone messed up beyond belief.

J.
.

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