texlive problems

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Mon Jun 16 23:26:30 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 08:35 +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> I love the fact that F9 is now using texlive instead of tetex. However,
> I have found these 3 problems so far:

I have TeXLive installed in F8.  It's supposed to be the same packages,
just built for F8 by the packager.

> 
> 1. pcatcode.sty is missing. Example:
> 
> $ cat t.tex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{amsrefs}
> \begin{document}
> hello
> \end{document}
> 
> $ latex t.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./t.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>    [...snip...]
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amscls/amsrefs.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty)
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `pcatcode.sty' not found.
>    [...snip...]

Don't know about this.  The file is missing here too.

> 
> 2. No kdvi program. kdvi used to be in kdegraphics but this no longer
> seems to be the case. kdvi works very well with kile. Has this program
> been dropped?

It seems to be there in the F8 version.  I don't have it installed,
though.

> 
> 3. There seems to be a problem with pdf metapost processing. I haven't
> tracked this down fully yet but a collection of metapost and latex files
> that process correctly with tetex, produces this:
> 
> $ pdflatex premath.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./premath.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>    [..snip..]
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ltxmisc/a4wide.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ntgclass/a4.sty))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))) (./premath.aux)
> 
> ! Package graphics Error: Cannot convert premath-1.mps from MPS to PDF.
> (graphics)                The support file `supp-pdf.tex' is missing.

$ rpm -qf `locate supp-pdf`
texlive-texmf-doc-2007-17.fc9.noarch

HTH

> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs




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