[Fedora TeX Live] "yum install texlive" fails: packages missing

[Bradley C. Kuszmaul]

OK, "yum clean all" seems to help.  Thanks.

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Bradley,
>
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:19:12PM -0400, Bradley C. Kuszmaul wrote:
> > After upgrading to FC17 from FC16 with preupgrade, I ran into some
> > difficulties, so I removed the texlive 2011 installation and reinstalled
> > the FC 16 texlive 2007 installation.
> >
> > Then I did this:
> >
> > $ sudo rpm -i
> >
> http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/texlive-release.noarch.rpm
> >
> > and then
> >
> > $ sudo yum install texlive
> >
> > which failed.
> >
> > For example, it tries to find
> >
> http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/texlive-texinfo-2008_04_18.10.svn26886-1.noarch.rpm
> > but the proper URL appears to be
> >
> http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/tex-texinfo-2008_04_18.10.svn26886-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > At least, the tex-* version exists, whereas the texlive-* version does
> not.
>
> Works for me. Have you tried yum clean all before the update? It seems
> yum uses old metadata.
>
> >
> > Some files start with tex-* and some with texlive-*, but it isn't
> > consistent.
>
> It actually is as tex-* prefixed packages come from CTAN and texlive-*
> prefixed from TeX Live SVN (binaries).
>
> Jindrich
>
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