[Fedora TeX Live] Missing groff.enc (on texlive 2012, F16)

[Peter Williams]

Hi,

On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 08:40 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 03:23:59PM -0400, Peter Williams wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running texlive 2012 on Fedora 16 and am trying to compile a
> > document that requires groff.enc. I can't find anything that provides
> > it.
> > 
> > $ sudo yum install 'tex(groff.enc)'
> 
> Strange. It works for me:

Thanks for looking into this. It turns out I had a weird, self-inflicted
problem in my local configuration that was preventing this from working.

Peter

> 
> # yum install 'tex(groff.enc)'
> Loaded plugins: presto
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package tex-metapost.noarch 1:1.212.svn26689-1 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: texlive-metapost-bin for package:
> 1:tex-metapost-1.212.svn26689-1.noarch
> --> Processing Dependency: tex-metapost-fedora-fonts for package:
> 1:tex-metapost-1.212.svn26689-1.noarch
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package tex-metapost-fedora-fonts.noarch 1:1.212.svn26689-1 will
> be installed
> ---> Package texlive-metapost-bin.x86_64
> 1:2012-svn26509.1.20120824_r27513.fc16 will be installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =======================================================================================================================================================
>  Package                                   Arch
> Version                                                Repository
> Size
> =======================================================================================================================================================
> Installing:
>  tex-metapost                              noarch
> 1:1.212.svn26689-1                                     texlive
> 78 k
> Installing for dependencies:
>  tex-metapost-fedora-fonts                 noarch
> 1:1.212.svn26689-1                                     texlive
> 17 k
>  texlive-metapost-bin                      x86_64
> 1:2012-svn26509.1.20120824_r27513.fc16                 texlive
> 202 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =======================================================================================================================================================
> Install  1 Package (+2 Dependent packages)
> 
> > 
> > doesn't find anything, nor does
> > 
> > $ yum provides '*'/groff.enc
> 
> Note that it actually can not find anything as the virtual provides
> for filetypes are just an arbitrary string tex([file without path].[ext])
> 
> The absence of path is actually intentional as the file will likely be
> indexed by kpathsea anyway.
> 
> Jindrich
> 

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Peter Williams / peter at newton.cx