[Fedora TeX Live] auctex and texlive in F17

[Martin Riener]

On 06/22/2012 12:34 PM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:07:52PM +0200, Martin Riener wrote:
>> On 06/02/2012 10:07 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> Installing emacs-auctex fails in F17 with texlive-2012:
>>>         
>>>         $ sudo yum install emacs-auctex
>>>         Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>>>         Resolving Dependencies
>>>         --> Running transaction check
>>>         ---> Package emacs-auctex.noarch 0:11.86-7.fc17 will be
>>>         installed
>>>         --> Processing Dependency: tex-preview = 11.86-7.fc17 for
>>>         package: emacs-auctex-11.86-7.fc17.noarch
>>>         Package tex-preview-11.86-7.fc17.noarch is obsoleted by
>>>         1:texlive-preview-11.86.svn17118-1.noarch which is already
>>>         installed
>>>         --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>         Error: Package: emacs-auctex-11.86-7.fc17.noarch (fedora)
>>>                    Requires: tex-preview = 11.86-7.fc17
>>>                    Installed: 1:texlive-preview-11.86.svn17118-1.noarch
>>>         (@texlive)
>>>                        tex-preview = 2012
>>>                    Available: tex-preview-11.86-7.fc17.noarch (fedora)
>>>                        tex-preview = 11.86-7.fc17
>>>          You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>          You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>>
>> Dear list!
>>
>> I have exactly the same problem... do i see it correctly that would need
>> to be fixed in the main fedora repository (where auctex lives)?
> I fixed it in Fedora TeX Live repo. I removed the preview package from
> there as AUCTeX is the real upstream for it so please install
> tex-preview from Fedora instead. It should work now.
>
> Thanks,
> Jindrich
>

Thanks a lot for the great work Jindrich!

cheers, Martin