texlive 2009 / kile / yum

[BoyWonder410]

I'm cross posting, http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=244332

not sure if that's ok or not, but i'm not sure exactly where this thread should be. Feel free to move/delete if necessary.

I've installed texlive from the texlive distribution, not via yum, as here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html

i'm pretty sure the install went well enough, and it'll probably work, but i can't install kile or other ide's b/c yum doesn't know texlive is installed.

I've tried rpm -ivh --justdb texlive*rpm

but i'm having dependency problems,

[jcress@localhost yum.repos.d]$ sudo rpm -ivh --justdb texlive*rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
	libkpathsea.so.4 is needed by texlive-2007-51.fc13.i686
	libkpathsea.so.4 is needed by texlive-dvips-2007-51.fc13.i686
	tex-preview is needed by texlive-texmf-latex-2007-35.fc13.noarch
	libkpathsea.so.4 is needed by texlive-utils-2007-51.fc13.i686

I've tried
[CODE] yumdownloader --resolve texlive [\CODE]

but i'm still missing a few things.

I'm not sure how to handle this without screwing up yum.....

any advice would be appreciated.

[glennzo]

Try

yum provides */libkpathsea.so.4

Is this helpful?

[BoyWonder410]

Great, thanks for your help!

I found that package and installed --justdb for it...

Now:

[jcress@localhost yum.repos.d]$ rpm -ivh --justdb texlive*
error: Failed dependencies:
	tex-preview is needed by texlive-texmf-latex-2007-35.fc13.noarch
[jcress@localhost yum.repos.d]$ sudo rpm -ivh --justdb tex-preview*
error: Failed dependencies:
	tex(latex) is needed by tex-preview-11.86-1.fc13.noarch
[jcress@localhost yum.repos.d]$

is tex(latex) a package??? i can't find it....

[glennzo]

What's this --justdb stuff with rpm? Any of the other options listed in man rpm helpful in your case? --nodeps or something like that?

[BoyWonder410]

--justdb tricks yum into thinking the package is installed.... hopefully that doesnt mess things up..

-- nodeps lets me install tex-preview

but n ow i'm getting new errors

[jcress@localhost yum.repos.d]$ sudo rpm -ivh --justdb texlive*rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
	file /usr/bin/kpseaccess from install of texlive-2007-51.fc13.i686 conflicts with file from package texlive-kpathsea-bin-2010-5.20100430.fc13.16044.fc13.i686
	file /usr/bin/kpsepath from install of texlive-2007-51.fc13.i686 conflicts with file from package texlive-kpathsea-bin-2010-5.20100430.fc13.16044.fc13.i686
	file /usr/bin/kpsereadlink from install of texlive-2007-51.fc13.i686 conflicts with file from package texlive-kpathsea-bin-2010-5.20100430.fc13.16044.fc13.i686
	file /usr/bin/kpsestat from install of texlive-2007-51.fc13.i686 conflicts with file from package texlive-kpathsea-bin-2010-5.20100430.fc13.16044.fc13.i686

( omitting similar lines .... )

[jcress@localhost yum.repos.d]$

[glennzo]

Did you do the pre-install cleanup of any previously installed versions?

Well, I was going to install this thing myself in an effort to help so I downloaded the installer and unpacked it. When I ran it I saw that there were over 2000 packages to download so I quit. No time to wait for all of that for something I don't really need.

[BoyWonder410]

yeah, I uninstalled previous versions.. but... now i'm trying to trick yum into thinking the fedora specific rpms are installed.. when they aren't... and that's not going well