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venik212
December 6th, 2009, 06:02 PM
It seems that on Nov. 9 2009 Texlive was FINALLY released for Ubuntu, but I cannot find it using Synaptic. Where is it? How can I install it if I cannot find it? I'd rather not go through the complicated manual installation.
Thanks
mionescu
December 6th, 2009, 10:33 PM
What do you men by "Texlive was released for Ubuntu"? I only found that Texlive 2009 was released (with no particular mention to Ubuntu), but the packages in Debian and Ubuntu are still the old Texlive 2007 ones.
venik212
December 7th, 2009, 02:40 AM
What do you men by "Texlive was released for Ubuntu"? I only found that Texlive 2009 was released (with no particular mention to Ubuntu), but the packages in Debian and Ubuntu are still the old Texlive 2007 ones.
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That is PRECISELY what I was complaining about, so I think you got it-- in 2009 the repositories still have only Texlive 2007 (which does not have a package manager, like Texlive200(0, although a Debian-flavor version had been released on Nov. 9, 2009.
Ubu-freak
December 7th, 2009, 03:18 AM
dang i didn't know 2009 came out... i just installed texlive and everything last night. is there gonna be a big difference between the two?
venik212
December 7th, 2009, 11:13 AM
dang i didn't know 2009 came out... i just installed texlive and everything last night. is there gonna be a big difference between the two?
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For me the main issue is the package manager, which 2007 lacks and 2009 has. On Windows I use MikTex, which has a package manager, and life without it is more difficult.
There are, of course, numerous bug fixes and new features in the 2009 version.
mionescu
December 7th, 2009, 04:51 PM
It seems that Texlive 2009 is in Debian, but in the experimental section (http://packages.debian.org/experimental/texlive). I am afraid that we will be stuck with the 2007 version for a while in Ubuntu.