Simon Dreher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 31.12.2012 17:10, schrieb Bob Tennent:
> > >|However, this is the one package that one absolutely must
> > >|download and install from the original version. The repackaging
> > >|industry tends to lag behind. For example, if you use the latest
> > >|Ubuntu LTS (12.04 Precise Pangolin) you haven't got it.
>
> The problem is the LTS version: either you use the up-to-date version
> (raring? At least quantal!) and get texlive2012, or you use the LTS
> version getting only security fixes and some tested bugfix version and
> have a stable, but soon somehow outdated system... it was your choice
> ;-) Of course you /can/ install texlive by hand, if you don't care about
> the benefits of a clean system package management system. Actually it is
> often recommended, but somehow this is a bit contradictive to the idea
> of LTS distros...
it's a problem for people who manage their own machines. my work
machine (belonging to the laboratory) is 12.04 lts by lab policy.
i run my own tl2012 installation, separately -- i need to keep up, but
i'm not allowed to change my os.
> > Dirk: I believe Ubuntu depends on Debian packaging and the Debian
> > maintainer for musixtex et al regards WIMA as the upstream source.
> > m-tx 0.60d-5 is in Debian testing.
>
> And works quite well. Only some of the short commands for compiling the
> m-tx sources seem to be missing ("pmx2pdf" and "m-tx"), but the basic
> commands prepmx (for m-tx) and pmx (pmx & tex for pmx -> dvi) are
> working great.
note that i don't ordinarily use musi*tex (it's my wife who's the
professional musician). i'm just here keeping an eye on you lot ;-)
(as the ctan team, we try to remain aware of what people are doing.)
robin
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