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Message #04165
Re: Upstream vs packaged texlive
Hi,
may not be related, but with one of the tools we can make use of, Virtual
Box, was very outdated in the repos. It took a bit of asking around, (read
as begging :P ) to get the updated version into the repo. If the manual
team are keen on using texlive, it needs a sponsor for debian repos. Once
that is done, the request for it into the ubuntu repo's is pretty much a
formality.
Regards,
Phill.
On 9 June 2013 23:54, Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tony Pursell
> <ajp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I suppose that the advantage of the packaged version is that it gets
> updated
> > (if there is an updated version) at least every time you update to a new
> > Ubuntu version and possibly in between Ubuntu versions. I installed
> texlive
> > for the precise manual, using the instructions on the website, and I
> have no
> > idea how to update it, if it does needs updating.
>
> Actually in the past, this hasn't been true. The Ubuntu packages
> weren't updated very frequently (and were often a year or more out of
> date).
>
> The Ubuntu/Debian packages were recently reorganized, however, so
> perhaps they'll be kept up to date more frequently in the future.
>
> If you've installed TeX Live from upstream, you can update at any time
> by running 'sudo tlmgr update --all --self'. The upstream packages
> are updated quite frequently (i.e., daily) as newer packages are
> released.
>
> (It may not work at the moment as they've stopped 2012 updates while
> they finalize the 2013 for release.)
>
> —Kevin
>
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