On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 at 02:49PM +0100, John Cremona wrote: > The second machine I tried (which I will not have access to until I go > home) had only just been upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, so it is surprising > that it's using an old texlive version.
Debian (and hence Ubuntu) only has TeXLive 2009. I don't really know why they've had such trouble packaging a newer version, but in any case, both Debian and Ubuntu package maintainers have utterly ignored my requests to remove the extra files: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655545 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-extra/+bug/512284 > Now I have (following your instructions very carefully ;)) > > jec%ls -l /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/sagetex > total 20 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5807 Jun 21 2009 old-crappy-sagetex.sty > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10487 Jun 12 14:44 sage-5.0-sagetex.sty > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 12 14:44 sagetex.sty -> sage-5.0-sagetex.sty > > and all is well! Using the symlink and a versioned filename is a nice idea. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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