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Hi, I know this might be a non-sense question, but I have to ask. I installed TeXLive 2009 on Ubuntu 10.04 (x64), but I did it manually with the "install-tl" perl script following the directions on http://tug.org/texlive/doc.html. All the other software I've previously installed was through
sudo aptitude install package-name
The reason why I did a manual installation was because tlmgr doesn't install with the aptitude repositories version, and I wanted a quick way to install/uninstall TeXLive-latex related packages. Moreover, I read that, as a general rule, TeXLive Ubuntu repositories' are generally outdated.
The problem I'm facing now is that I need to install other related software, for example, auctex
and when I issue
sudo aptitude install auctex
I get that all these packages will be installed:
auctex emacs23{a} emacs23-bin-common{a} emacs23-common{a} emacsen-common{a} lacheck{a} latex-beamer{a} latex-xcolor{a} lmodern{a} luatex{a} pgf{a} preview-latex-style{a} prosper{a} ps2eps{a} tex-common{a} texlive-base{a} texlive-binaries{a} texlive-common{a} texlive-doc-base{a} texlive-extra-utils{a} texlive-font-utils{a} texlive-generic-recommended{a} texlive-latex-base{a} texlive-latex-base-doc{a} texlive-latex-recommended{a} texlive-latex-recommended-doc{a} texlive-luatex{a} texlive-pstricks{a} texlive-pstricks-doc{a}
Even if I try something like
sudo aptitude install --without-recommends auctex
I still get
auctex emacs23{a} emacs23-bin-common{a} emacs23-common{a} emacsen-common{a} preview-latex-style{a} tex-common{a}
Which is way better than before, but I'm still getting tex-common
that is normally installed when TeXLive full installation is performed (I think). tex-common
in turn, is installed because of preview-latex-style
, which in turn is needed because auctex
requires so.
So, my question. Is there any way to tell aptitude "Hey I've already installed these so don't worry about dependencies, I have these under control despite you'd never seen them before?"? Will auctex
even work despite the manual installation of TeXLive?
Any help or idea is greatly appreciated.
1Interesting, I did't know about equivs. It is definitely a plausible solution at least for the auctex problem... On the other hand, TexLive 2009 installs by default on /urs/local/texlive/2009/, so I could have left it there along with the Ubuntu's repo in a different directory, but then again I'm running low on resources at least on this laptop. I'll give it a try on my desktop PC. Thanks! – l30nc1t0 – 2010-08-25T01:43:31.963
Gilles, I'm working now with the Editor Kile which despite it installs some KDE libraries, it allows to indicate where the LaTeX/TeX software is located (au contraire to auctex which requires to provide this information during build via ./configure). I also believe TeXLive 2010 is going to be out soon, so I'll keep this place posted when I try on my desktop PC to see if it works. I realize now that, even though, it may present a problem to mess up aptitude, in the long run, Ubuntu's repo requires to MANUALLY update each CTAN package, so updating presents the same hassle, one way or the other. – l30nc1t0 – 2010-08-25T20:02:43.877
@l30nc1t0: AucTeX can be told where the TeX installation is at any time. Set the
TeX-macro-global
variable to the list of directories containing TeX style files, and runTeX-auto-generate-global
once. See “Customizing” in the manual. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-08-25T20:36:03.320Thanks. I see it now that you mention it, at gnu.org online documentation, but the problem here's I'm definitely not competent enough on Emacs (or Lisp-related files?). I read the section on installing and configuring auctex. You brought up my attention to customizing, and I'm peering it now, but I cannot even grasp what are they talking about. I was mislead by Wikipedia and the summary of features of auctex. I thought XEmacs was like GEdit or something. I apologize for being a nOOb in these matters: I suffer from 'lack-of-Windows-like' syndrome, XD. – l30nc1t0 – 2010-08-25T23:42:48.913