There is indeed a workaround that you can find in a previous thread. I'd also vote for a proper fix of this lack, since the preview pack is important for some latex frontend, such as LyX.
On Friday 28 September 2012 16:43:39 Colin Macdonald wrote: > Hi Peter, > > There was a previous thread about this: I think there was a > work-around / hack by Jose Matos (which I haven't got around to > trying). I will forward it to you off-list. > > I would also like to have a proper fix: preview.sty seems to be needed > for many of my beamer files. > > Colin > > On 09/28/2012 02:44 PM, Peter Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using texlive 2012 on Fedora 17 and need the preview.sty file. But > > it doesn't seem to be provided **by the texlive 2012 repo** as checked > > with the usual ways. > > > > There **is** a tex-preview from the fedora repo, but it seems to be > > incompatible since it puts files in /usr/share/texmf. There's also a > > texlive-preview package in texlive **2011**. > > > > Should I take this to mean that the preview package has been deprecated > > in upstream texlive 2012? Maybe there was just an oversight in > > propagating it to the Fedora texlive 2012 repository? > > > > (Yes, I could get going by installing the Fedora RPM and futzing my > > path, but I'm interested in the packaging aspect of this issue, not the > > functionality.) > > > > Please CC me in any replies since I'm not subscribed to the list. > > Thanks, > > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > TeXLive mailing list > TeXLive@linux.cz > http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive -- Rudi Gaelzer Department of Physics Institute of Physics and Mathematics Federal University of Pelotas BRAZIL Registered linux user # 153741 _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
