On 04/11/13 17:03, Rolf Turner wrote: > > Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that > previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to > switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) > > I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness > by re-installing texlive. > > I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html > > unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed > > ./install.tl
How had you installed texlive previously on F17? Did you not install it with yum install texlive for a reason? > > as per instructions. I got an error message: >> Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./tlpkg >> /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl >> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at >> tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199. >> Compilation failed in require at ./install-tl line 53. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./install-tl line 53. yum install perl-Digest-MD5 will get you Digest/MD5.pm > > I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me. > > I presume that I need to update *something* w.r.t. perl, but it is not at all > clear to me what I need to do. Doing "yum search perl" gave a plethora of > hits. I have no idea which are the relevant ones. Then "yum search perl5" > basically turned up perl-pgsql_perl5.x86_64. What has pgsql got to do with > the price of eggs in China? > > Can anyone suggest what I need to do to remedy the problem? > > I have no idea what extra information is relevant, so I have not tried > to provide any. If some Good Samaritan would like more information > about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to > supply it. > > I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping lacunae > in my knowledge, so please be patient with me. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > P. S. I originally posted this query to texhax, but was told that this is a > Fedora issue not a texlive issue, and that I should post to this list. > > R. T. > > > -- From now on, at least during winter time, Im going to blame all spelling an grammar erros on the cat sitting on my chest every time I sit down at the computer.... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
