Am 18.10.2011 um 16:39 schrieb Chris Travers:
> Here's a breakdown of OS support for TexLive versions for anyone interested:
>
> Debian Lenny: TexLive 2007
> Debian Squeeze: TexLive 2009
> Debian Sid: TexLive 2009
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: TexLive 2009
> Red Hat Enterprise 6: TexLive 2007
> That means that the most recent versions of CentOS and Scientific
> Linux also use 2007.
Forget these RPM or DEB based re-packings! (The support from their
distributors/repackagers can be a bit less than optimal.) Install TeX Live
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011! Then every user will have a choice.
Because setting PATH and MANPATH makes any of these installations active and
working. And you can use the TeX Live Manager, tlmgr, of each of these
installations to support (setup, changes, updates) any of these. And when you
start lacking some disk space you can use utilities like dupmerge to hard-link
files from the stable distributions (all but that from this year) that many
invariant files become unique on disk.
I think it should even be possible to have one external disk (NAS or such) that
also carries the 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for all the different Linux
clients. (Because the TeX binaries are statically linked and therefore do not
depend on subtle variations in systems' shared libraries.)
--
Greetings
Pete
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his
pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables.
– Archie Goodwin
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