On 01/24/2011 08:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Walter Cazzola<cazzola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That has been a great idea except for a couple of issues on some
>> *nonrelated" packages. To remove texlive yum forced the remotion of a2ps
>> and R-core (and few other but these are the most important for me) and I
>> can't reinstall them without reinstalling texlive (at least in part).
>>
> Although it might seem so, but they might not be entirely independent.
>
>> Now I've already installed texlive but not through yum and I'm wondering
>> why the rpm for these packages not really related to LaTeX and in
>> any case working also without LaTeX can't check for the bins instead of
>> the whole package.
>>
> That is how rpm (or any other package manager works). Checking for
> binaries can be ambiguous as some package might not place the binaries
> in the path the package manager might check.
>
>> Is there a way for forcing their installation without installing
>> texlive?
>>
> If you don't mind the disk space taken by the rpm version of texlive,
> you can solve the problem with setting your environment variables
> appropriately. This is how I get around this issue:
>
> ######################
> # Setup TeXLive 2009 #
> ######################
>
> function texlive_setup()
> {
> export TLHOME=/opt/texlive2009
> export PATH=$TLHOME/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
> export MANPATH=$TLHOME/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH
> export INFOPATH=$TLHOME/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH
> }
>
> Hope this helps
>
Hey Suvayu,
From another post:
****************** BEGIN QUOTE ******************
On 01/23/2011 10:56 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> > Is it possible to install boost-1.37.0-6.fc11.i586 along side
> > boost-1.41.0-11.fc13.i686 on F13 without hosing up the entire system?
> > I've got a thorny dependency problem that sym-links doesn't fix.
> > Maybe I could install it to a different base directory?
****************** END QUOTE ******************
Could I do something similar with the boost packages?
Mark LaPierre
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