On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 10:56 +0100, François Patte wrote: > I would like to install/test texlive. > 1- texlive packages from f9 could be installed under f8? I've not tried, but would advise against. > 2- texlive could live gently with tetex from f8? (I guess no!) No. > 3- texlive could be used with lyx from f8? (my wife use lyx and i don't > want family quarrels....) Probably, but I don't use lyx so don't you should seek further advice on this. > last question: is it possible to configure yum to install texlive on an > f8 install? I don't want to solve all dependencies by hand. Yes. Put the following in /etc/yum.repos.d/texlive.repo [texlive] name=TeXLive 2007 for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/texlive/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 -- Mark Knoop