Bug 346798

Summary:	Easy installation of extra texlive packages.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Yasha Gindikin <gindikin>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	td, tilman.vogel
Version:	Alpha 2
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Description Yasha Gindikin 2007-12-07 15:01:37 UTC

Currently, texlive installation for Suse includes only a limited number of texlive packages. This is a sensible decision to save the space on the DVD. The real problem is that there is no simple way to install additional texlive packages via Yast or other package manager, since they are absent even in the main ftp repository of Suse. Of course, a sufficiently experienced user could download the packages from CTAN and install them in the local texmf tree. However, it would be much more convenient and user-friendly to have the possibility to install them directly from the Suse ftp tree. E.g. Debian and Ubuntu do keep some popular (but too large to be included in the DVD) texlive packages, like cm-super, in their ftp repository, so that they can be easily installed by apt-get. In this respect, Suse is behind those distributions. So my feature request is to add some popular texlive packages (including but not limited to cm-super) to Suse ftp tree. The proposal is to include them as separate packages that would not bloat the stock texlive package.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2007-12-07 15:05:56 UTC

I've not the time to do this you have to wait.

Comment 2 Till Dörges 2008-01-08 15:34:39 UTC

At least providing the package cm-super for openSUSE would be greatly appreciated. I keep getting (La)TeX files which - if compiled on my openSUSE 10.3 system - produce *really* bad looking results. Changing theses files (to perhaps use Times instead of Computer Modern fonts) is usually not an option.

The fonts used in the resulting PDFs are encoded as bitmaps, which make them ugly and hard to read. And it also prevents copy and paste from those documents.

Manual installation of cm-super fixes those problems.

These URLs provide a bit of background:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-T1
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1

Comment 3 Tilman Vogel 2008-02-27 14:58:02 UTC

I'd like to use the "doublestroke" package. Will install by hand now :-(

Comment 4 Tilman Vogel 2008-03-03 15:44:19 UTC

Ok, maybe this comment is a bit distant from the original feature request, but I discovered and am quite enthusiastic about the MiKTeX package manager which can be compiled for Linux:

http://miktex.org/unx/

It works and integrates very nicely with TeXlive on my openSUSE 10.3. I configured it such that it maintains my texmf-tree under /usr/local/share/texmf.

AFAIK there is no similar TeX-specific package manager for *nix around, is it?

Sorry, I didn't wrap mpm into an rpm yet. Would definitely be nice to have it on Build Service or Packman or such...

Comment 5 Dr. Werner Fink 2008-03-07 19:11:19 UTC

I'm know using the full TeXLive tree