On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:15:02PM +0530, Shrisha Rao wrote: > El jun 26, 2010, a las 5:03 p.m., Ulrike Fischer escribió: > > > You need a more recent xelatex.ini. You can get it here > > > > http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/tex/xelatex/config/ > > > > You will then have to regenerate the format. > > > > Or install a recent texlive. > > Ubuntu has been well-known to include an out-of-date TeX Live (I think 2007!) > with many long-resolved issues. It is also problematic to install TeX Live > or some parts of it separately if one has already installed the TeX packages > made available by the distro, as all sorts of things break (or will suddenly > break when there is some package update). The tlmgr utility also conflicts > with the distro's own package update feature so is typically unavailable. > > The best things to do would be to switch from Ubuntu to another distro that > has TeX Live 2009 (sorry, I cannot tell you which one), or else to not > install the TeX packages from the distro's manager but to install and > maintain TeX Live separately.
As some one who have been using Ubuntu and texlive for several years now, I can safely say you are exaggerating too much here. One can easily install texlive from tug on Ubuntu like any other Unix(-like) system, nothing special here. Please refer to texlive documentation for installation instructions. And, IIRC, there is a PPA for texlive 2009. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
