Does Fedora's TexLive comes with tlmgr?

[sweetrain]

I am wondering if Fedora's package include this the package management utility, tlmgr. It seems that Ubuntu's Texlive does not.

Thanks!

[hugochief]

That's an excellent question. I would be glad if someone could answer it too.

Hugo.

[RupertPupkin]

Doesn't look like it. Fedora 10 comes with TeX Live 2007, but tlmgr was introduced with TeX Live 2008. The F10 updates don't have the new version listed. And it looks like F11 won't include it either: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
In fact, I just checked the F11-alpha package list still shows texlive-2007. So maybe you could propose it for F12: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Ideas

[pillu]

TeXlive 2008 can be installed very easily using a standalone network installation package.

http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html

This installation will install tlmgr as well. Hope that helps!

-pillu

[hugochief]

If I do install TexLive 2008 myself, do I have to first uninstall TeXLive 2007 using Add/Remove Software? I don't want different distributions to interfer, so how do I perform a "clean" installation? Why doesn't Fedora refresh TexLive anyway? Isn't it a widely enough used package after all??!

Thanks!

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

The newer version of TexLive has a large number of complicated licensing issues that requires time to audit and not much interest in doing that.

[kalwisti]

Hi, hugochief,

You might want to take a look at this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219260
"Which LaTeX distribution in Fedora 10?"
(See esp. post #2)

Here's another suggestion you might want to try: deleting your current TeX Live 2007 installation and then installing the "plain vanilla" release of TeX Live 2008 from scratch (by downloading it from TUG's website: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html ). This info came to me via e-mail from Karl Berry, the co-editor of TeX Live, so it is authoritative:

And therefore the standard TL install (from, e.g., the DVD) does not affect any system TeX installation or interact with the system packaging in any way whatsoever. It is completely independent. It installs itself by default under /usr/local.

As for being skilled enough [to install TeX Live from scratch], the defaults should work fine, so if you have about ~1GB free disk (it installs everything by default), all you have to type is one character: i (for install) . . . . If you install the "native" TL, you can have exactly the same TeX installation, distro-independent.

I haven't tried this myself; I'm still using the Fedora 9 TeX Live package from the standard repositories. If you try, maybe you can report back and let everyone know how it worked for you. HTH.