[Fedora TeX Live] error on upgrade to tl2010, F15

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Sat Jun 4 17:55:17 CEST 2011


On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 15:21 +0200, Sebastian Krämer wrote: 
> On 06/03/2011 12:14 PM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> >> Does this make sense to you?  What can I do about it?
> >
> > Yes. It is caused by the fact that Fedora evince is linked against old
> > kpathsea library. The new and old kpathsea libraries can not actually
> > coexist so the only solution is to remove evince-dvi. Then you can
> > alternatively build evince locally against the new TeX Live.
> 
> Hello Jindrich,
> 
> thanks for your reply. I'm not planning on building evince locally and
> TL2010 isn't that necessary for me, I was rather curious.
> Do you think it's a valid request for evince to switch to another
> version, something that could be filed in gnome's or redhat's bugzilla?
> As I understand it, that would be necessary in the long run anyway.
> 

Rebuilding evince is trivial. Grab the SRPM and then just "rpmbuild
--rebuild <pkgname>.  I can post the RPMs someplace for you to pick up
if you want.

> Btw., what about filing TL2010 as FutureFeature for F16? Would that be a
> feasible goal?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Sebastian
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