[lug] Revtex 4.2 on Older Fedora?

[D. Stimits]

> On June 1, 2019 at 5:30 PM Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     I do not know anything about revtex, but I suggest compiling from source rather than a binary, if possible.
> 

One of the confusing parts about this is that revtex is just a latex template and isn't a binary (think of it as the html apache might serve where only the html is being updated and not apache). I'm trying to learn to use TeXstudio, and I don't see any configuration within it for where it finds various templates (e.g., amslatex), so I'm guessing that if I add anything to "/usr/local/share/", then any underlying mechanism will still revert back to using the original "/usr/share/". Maybe what I'll do is save a copy of the original directories under "/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/" and overwrite with the zip file just to see what happens (and if it fails I can just put the backup copy back in place). I'm just finding it difficult figure out how the default search path is being used under TeXstudio (or just command line LaTeX).


>     If that is not possible, then install both the package and its dependencies somewhere else (not sure how to do that with RPMs, but easy with zip), and use patchelf to change all the RPATH appropriately. Pain to do, but doable (and scriptable).
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>     On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:37 PM D. Stimits < stimits at comcast.net mailto:stimits at comcast.net > wrote:
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>         > > 
> >         Hi,
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> > 
> >         I'm hoping someone has some revtex advice here. I have an older Fedora 27 system with revtex 4.1, but it needs update.
> > 
> > 
> >         There is a zip file available for revtex 4.2, and this unpacks with paths probably intended to be at the root directory "/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/". It wouldn't be proper to overwrite these RPM based files by unpacking a zip file there, but probably this could be added by direct unpacking to somewhere like "/usr/local/share/texlive/texmf-dist/".  Then I'd have to figure out how to deal with part of the system in the "/usr/share/" location, and the rest in "/usr/local/share/". Is this the right way to add revtex4.2 on my older Fedora?
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> >         Thanks!
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