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

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