I wanted to start using Tex/Latex, so I decided to get Texlive, so I downloaded texlive using Yast2, but I saw and read that there is no tlmgr (the app to manage tex packages), so I uninstalled texlive through Yast2 and I downloaded texlive from their website and installed it, but now when I want to install Texmaker through Yast it says that I don’t have texlive installed which is not true.
Is there a way to:
make Yast recognise my installation of texlive?
or
force install of texmaker and show him the place where texlive is installed?
On 2011-10-29 10:56, AndnA wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I wanted to start using Tex/Latex, so I decided to get Texlive, so I
> downloaded texlive using Yast2, but I saw and read that there is no
> tlmgr (the app to manage tex packages), so I uninstalled texlive through
> Yast2 and I downloaded texlive from their website and installed it, but
> now when I want to install Texmaker through Yast it says that I don’t
> have texlive installed which is not true.
As far as YaST/zypper/rpm are concerned, it is true if you did not install
an rpm.
>
> Is there a way to:
> 1) make Yast recognise my installation of texlive?
No.
> 2) force install of texmaker and show him the place where texlive is
> installed?
You can force install ignoring dependencies - see “man rpm”.
I would suggest instead that you install the openSUSE packages and ask
somebody to build tlmgr for you, or make it yourself.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
That’s weird.
I use texlive and texmaker with no problems on my OpenSuse 11.4 (64 bit) with KDE 4.6.5
My texlive installation (through Yast) comes from repo-oss. I have
texlive
texlive-arab
texlive-bin
texlive-bin-latex
texlive-bin-xetex
texlive-bin-xmltex
texlive-contex
texlive-latex
texlive-xetex
texlive-xmltex
and Texmaker from repository Publishing
Everything works.
If I can suggest another program, then have a look into Lyx (repo: Publishing)
I suspect the absence of timgr is because many people use LyX - which I would also recommend - or Kile which is an excellent LaTeX editor, both of which I have been able to use - in the case of LyX for eleven years - without ever needing anything more to manage TeX packages.