Just correction of my typo. On 2011.11.1 at 2:05 PM (JST), Takashi Ichihara wote, > Hi all, > > I found the solutions by myself to install REVTeX 4.1 on SL5/6. > Only installing two rpm packages resolved this. > > http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html > > http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html > > http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-revtex-4.1-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html
> $ ls -l tete* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 396538 Nov 1 12:59 > tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3896602 Nov 1 12:56 > tetex-revtex-4.1-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm > $ > > All these modules will be expanded at the the directory tree > starting at /usr/local/share/texmf while original tex distributions > of SL are expanded at the directory tree of /usr/share/texmf . > > So in principle, there is no interference between the original > tex packages and this updates. > > So far, these two rpm packages seem to be working well > on our SL6.1 (X86_64) and SL5.6-5.7(X86_64) for APS. https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/ > > However, since these are unsupported software packages, > please use these at your own risk. > > Regrades, > Takashi Ichihara > > On 2011.11.1 at 1:31 PM (JST), Jon Peatfiel wrote, >> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Takashi ichihara wrote: >> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> Recently APS Journals requires RevTex 4.1 as well as the latest version >>> of the natbib package, version 8.31a which was released in November >>> 2009. >>> >>> https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/ >>> >>> However, in the default TeX installation of SL6.1 (and SL5.7), only the >>> RevTex4 and old versions of natbib are installed. >> <snip> >>> Does anyone know how to install RevTex 4.1 as well as the latest >>> version >>> of the natbib package, version 8.31a which was released in November >>> 2009 >>> on SL5 and SL6 as system wide ? >>> >>> Thank you in advance. >> >> For complex reasons we need to maintain availability of the default >> and older revtex (including the revtex 3.1!), so for revtex 4.1 we >> added a directory in texmf.local (but outside the usual search >> places) containing updated versions of: >> >> revtex, natbib, url >> >> those being the latest versions taken striaght from CTAN - latest at >> the time we were asked for it. Then for users to use it they need to >> set TEXINPUTS to include that directory before :: (meaning 'the usual >> path' of course), e.g. in our case (for historical reasons) we keep >> tex in /opt/tetex/ so the path to add is: >> /opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/revtex-4.1 and users can set something >> like: >> >> export TEXINPUTS=/opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/revtex-4.1:: >> >> and similarly for BIBINPUTS/BSTINPUTS for bibtex etc. >> >> It is a bit of pain for users, but I really don't like messing with >> the existing default installed revtex as I have too many nightmares >> about breaking existing documents doing something similar many years >> ago. >>
