This is indeed embarrassing, however in my humble opinion, TeXLive
should not be shipping with Ubuntu at all, as it is the source of many
potential disasters. One trivial example: suppose that you use a
different TeX distribution, or simply opt for a "manual" installation of
(the current version of) TeXLive, as many people (myself included)do.
You might then decide to install a random TeX-related package -- be it
an editor, a font, or anything else for that matter -- just to realize
that Ubuntu thinks it should now install the whole TeX-system shebang
for you...
Best regards,
Zvi Gilboa
On 07/19/2012 03:59 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
2012/7/18 Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>:
BTW, the problem you encountered seems to be caused by a bug rather
than a compatibility problem. Obviously the comment character was
ignored. However, it's fixed already in newer releases.
> What's the easiest solution, short of "Update your whole
> installation to the latest TeXLive"?
Please note that in order to upgrade from TL-2011 to TL-2012 you don't
have to install everything from scratch anymore:
http://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html
You could probably install a newer LuaTeX binary into your current
installation, but I fear that everything you do beyond the package
manager's neck will cause trouble former or later. In particular,
if your system is inconsistent, nobody can reproduce your problems.
Can you believe it, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" released
April 2012 ships with TeXLive 2009.
Dirk
