On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Les Denham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 >> > >> > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. >> >> Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install >> it on Ubuntu > > Rainer, > > There seem to be some problems integrating it with apt (the package manager). > It's pretty easy to install independently of the package manager, though it > is a very large (at least 1.2GB) download. You can get it from CTAN > (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/). The simple answer
Thanks - I'll try it out and will give some feedback concerning SyncTeX as soon as I have it. > would be to wait until Jaunty (9.04) comes out (scheduled final release April > 23, 2009). But it will still be TeXLive-2007 in 9.04, so if you want the new > version soon, you'll have to bypass apt. > > I have TeXLive-2008 running on my Gentoo system (it is "unstable" in portage, > the Gentoo package manager), and have not had any problems at all with it. > > -- > Les > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Faculty of Science Natural Sciences Building Private Bag X1 University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa
