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[Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Jonathan.

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is one minor but important bug in pkgs/install-pkgs.sh which I
> noticed.  If the file tufte-book.cls is not present, it tries to install
> a package named textlive-latex-pictures, which does not exist and so the
> whole apt-get install command fails.  This is not tested for in the
> script, so the script then outputs text saying it succeeded... this is
> uncool.
>
> The fix for the "wrong package name" is just to edit line 506 of the
> script so it says texlive-pictures rather than texlive-latex-pictures.

I think the current install-pkgs.sh script hasn't been updated to work
with the newer Ubuntu packages (since we currently recommend using the
upstream TeX Live packages).

—Kevin