[Fedora TeX Live] Preview.sty file?

[José Matos]

On 07/09/2012 05:14 PM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
> Ok, using Fedora 16, I've found the package tex-preview, distributed by the 
> fedora repository.  Installing that package, Instant Preview resumed its 
> normal function in Fedora 16.
> However, in another desktop, running Fedora 17, I still don't have Instant 
> Preview, although tex-preview is also installed there.  Is there any reason 
> for the different behaviour between F16 and F17?

Hi Rudi,
    I have the same problem and only now I have been able to look into it.

AFAICS what happens is that preview.sty is not in texlive search path.

$ kpsewhere url.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty
$ kpsewhere preview.sty
$

According to texconfig

kpathsea variables
...
TEXMF={/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config,/usr/share/texlive/texmf-var,/root/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-var,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/../texmf-local,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}
...

Note that /usr/share/texmf is not in that search path.

Since /usr/share/texmf-local is in the list making it a symbolic link to
/usr/share/texmf (after running texhash) shows it again:

$ kpsewhere preview.sty
/usr/share/texlive/../texmf-local/tex/latex/preview/preview.sty

Jindrich is this diagnostic right and if so could you fix it allowing the tex packages in fedora to work with texlive-2012.

Thanks and regards, :-)

-- 
José Matos