[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 188, Issue 1
D. Stimits
stimits at comcast.net
Mon Jun 3 18:33:26 MDT 2019
> On June 3, 2019 at 9:38 AM Evelyn Mitchell <efm at tummy.com> wrote:
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> I usually install texlive, which includes revtex 4.1 in texlive-publishers
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/425732/how-to-install-revtex-into-texlive
>
I'm using texlive via the TeXstudio application, and the default revtek is 4.1 on this particular Fedora. I saw a zip file for 4.2, which is what triggered my search for the "proper" way to install it. What I found out is that the commands used in TeXlive do not seem to have any particular customization available by command line, but apparently there is a system-wide database which can be updated to include content unpacked into the "/usr/local/" areas. For anyone interested, I created "/usr/local/share/texlive/texmf-dist/", then unpacked the revtex 4.2 zip there, followed by this database update command:
sudo mktexlsr /usr/local/share/texlive/texmf-dist
I don't really know how to test if it works, but I'm guessing that 4.2 is now accessible. Now I need to research how to detect if 4.2 is used instead of 4.1 (or how to force 4.2).
> These days, I've been very happy withhttp://cocalc.com as an environment for
> doing math development. It is available as a container, which you can
> run locally, or you can run it free in the cloud (on tiny resources), or
> pay for modest but reasonable compute upgrades.
>
> It includes a full TeX environment, and can run x11 applications, in the browser
> using xpra.
>
> It's a project by the Sagemath team. Saves me a lot of time.
>
My biggest motivation to sticking with this version of Fedora is that I installed Mathematica a while back, and although they don't support this there was only one bug fix and some customizations before I could get it to work. The next release of Fedora after that changes versions to the point that I'd probably have to buy a new license, and even then it probably wouldn't work...I might have to switch to Ubuntu, and I don't want to do that (I do have an Ubuntu available, but I really don't like it as much as I do Fedora). I was trying to use free apps for a while, but found they just didn't have the symbolic math support.
Sometimes I cheat on TeX and use Mathematica to do the TeX form conversion :P
> Evelyn Mitchell
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> > 1. Revtex 4.2 on Older Fedora? (D. Stimits)
> > 2. Re: Revtex 4.2 on Older Fedora? (Davide Del Vento)
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> > Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 15:36:54 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: "D. Stimits" < stimits at comcast.net mailto:stimits at comcast.net >
> > To: BLUG < lug at lug.boulder.co.us mailto:lug at lug.boulder.co.us >
> > Subject: [lug] Revtex 4.2 on Older Fedora?
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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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> > From: Davide Del Vento < davide.del.vento at gmail.com mailto:davide.del.vento at gmail.com >
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> > I do not know anything about revtex, but I suggest compiling from source
> > rather than a binary, if possible.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
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