[Fedora TeX Live] texlive 2012 and asymptote

[Norman Gaywood]

It seems that texlive does not build the asy binary of asymptote. A
bugzilla about this for 2011 is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681231
(texlive-asymptote (from TeXlive 2011) doesn't provide the binaries (?))

The solution to the missing binary is to install the stock Fedora
asymptote. I never tried 2011 but in 2012 I get this:

yum install asymptote
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
flash

                   | 2.9 kB     00:00
google-chrome

                   |  951 B     00:00
google-talkplugin

                   |  951 B     00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates

                   | 3.3 kB     00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

                   | 3.3 kB     00:00
texlive2012

                   | 2.9 kB     00:00
updates/metalink

                   |  42 kB     00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package asymptote.x86_64 0:2.13-1.fc16 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                      Arch
                 Version
Repository                                 Size
========================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 asymptote                                    x86_64
                 2.13-1.fc16
fedora                                    3.0 M

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 3.0 M
Installed size: 3.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/info/asy-faq.info.gz from install of
asymptote-2.13-1.fc16.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
texlive-asymptote-1:2.13.svn23068-1.noarch
  file /usr/share/info/asymptote.info.gz from install of
asymptote-2.13-1.fc16.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
texlive-asymptote-1:2.13.svn23068-1.noarch
  file /usr/share/man/man1/asy.1.gz from install of
asymptote-2.13-1.fc16.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
texlive-asymptote-1:2.13.svn23068-1.noarch



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