f8-f9 tetex/texlive

[Sarantis Paskalis]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:56:17AM +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> Bonjour,
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> I would like to install/test texlive.
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> texlive is now available with f9-alpha and I don't want to install
> f8-alpha so, I am wondering if
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> 1- texlive packages from f9 could be installed under f8?

Yes.

> 2- texlive could live gently with tetex from f8? (I guess no!)

No.

> 3- texlive could be used with lyx from f8? (my wife use lyx and i 
> don't want family quarrels....)

This I don't know.  Although texlive in Fedora aims to be close to the 
tetex setup, incompatibilities may appear.

> Thanks for info.
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> last question: is it possible to configure yum to install texlive on an
> f8 install? I don't want to solve all dependencies by hand.

See 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive#head-694fe23a06614cef1588905ead64d7f2cf9edd74

Thanks,

-- Sarantis