[gentoo-user] Re: texlive 2011

[james]

Alan E. Davis lngndvs at gmail.com writes:


 I think texlive
(is a pain in the ass)

Numerous times over the years, I have had fits with texlive*

Heres's my scratch notes the last time I figured
out the issue was fonts
(another time it was EVILution.(evolution).

 1) equery b -f '/etc/texmf/.*'
2) Uninstalling all of the above reported ebuilds.
3) rm -rf /etc/texmf/*
rm -rf /usr/share/texmf*
emerge -C `qlist -I -C dev-texlive/*`
4) emerge -1 texlive 

YMMV.

Basically, remove everything with textlive in the name
as well as dependent packages (if all else fails)

and check that it wants to install the version of textlive-*
you need/want. Finding the actual culprit often burns many
hours of hunt and seek...

Ocationally I have to rebuild the system
caveat emptor..


Good hunting,
HTH,

James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: texlive 2011

[Alan E. Davis]

Once ruby was emerged, texlive installed pretty much without any MAJOR
incident.  On the #gentoo irc channel, the advice was received to unmask
ruby 1.9.   There seems to be some variation in how this is done, but
that's basically all I needed to do.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:57 PM, james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:



 Numerous times over the years, I have had fits with texlive*

 Luckily this is the first time I've installed texlive on this system.

I've installed texlive from upstream source various times, without any
major issue.   It's a heck of a lot better than tetex used to be.



 Heres's m
  1) equery b -f '/etc/texmf/.*'
2) Uninstalling all of the above reported ebuilds.
3) rm -rf /etc/texmf/*
rm -rf /usr/share/texmf*
emerge -C `qlist -I -C dev-texlive/*`
4) emerge -1 texlive

 Ocationally I have to rebuild the system
 caveat emptor..


I did find it difficult to figure out how to install texlive on Gentoo this
time around, though.  Seems a good howto is needed.   This time around, I
bascially just started emerging (emerge texlive) and after all the bumps
and twists and turns, eventually I'd figured out that USE flags were
needed.   I hadn't seen that at first, even though I've installed texlive
on Gentoo before, a couple or three years ago.


Alan