[Fedora TeX Live] Preview.sty file?

[Colin Macdonald]

I still have this problem.  It does seem like a bug that
   /usr/share/texmf
is not in my latex path.

I notice it with documents using pst-pdf which needs preview.sty.

Thanks for the work-around José.

Colin

On 08/26/2012 06:35 PM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
> Oh, I forgot to mention.  The preview function resumed its normal
> function in F17 after the subsequent reboot.  I don't know why it
> didn't work the first time around, though...
> Anyway, it's working now, although I'm still getting it from the
> fedora repository.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:02 PM, José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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