TeX not on the DVD.

[wardhj]

We burned a DVD for Fedora 11. Strangely, TeX appears to be missing:

$ pwd
/media/Fedora 11 i386 DVD/Packages

$ ls | grep -i tex
texinfo-4.13a-2.fc11.i586.rpm
< plus a few packages not related to TeX>

Where is TeX? Is this a dumb question? If so, what should I be reading?

[Mikko]

Not all Fedora packages (> 16 GB) fit on a DVD and I suppose TeX was not considered a priority for the DVD spin. I use LaTeX myself all the time, but haven't burned a DVD in ages, and I'm quite surprised that it's not included. I suppose it's a sign of more and more of the user base shifting to people who are not likely to use TeX. In F11 the packages are named texlive-*. If/when you get your new system on the net, it's easy to install it over the network by doing e.g.

yum install texlive texlive-latex

Fedora gets such a large volume of updates that installing things over the network is often preferable to installation media, if you have a reasonably fast connection. I usually do a minimal installation from the Live CD and then get everything else over the network.