[Fedora TeX Live] preview package removed in texlive 2012?

[Colin Macdonald]

Hi Peter,

There was a previous thread about this: I think there was a 
work-around / hack by Jose Matos (which I haven't got around to 
trying).  I will forward it to you off-list.

I would also like to have a proper fix: preview.sty seems to be needed 
for many of my beamer files.

Colin

On 09/28/2012 02:44 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using texlive 2012 on Fedora 17 and need the preview.sty file. But
> it doesn't seem to be provided **by the texlive 2012 repo** as checked
> with the usual ways.
>
> There **is** a tex-preview from the fedora repo, but it seems to be
> incompatible since it puts files in /usr/share/texmf. There's also a
> texlive-preview package in texlive **2011**.
>
> Should I take this to mean that the preview package has been deprecated
> in upstream texlive 2012? Maybe there was just an oversight in
> propagating it to the Fedora texlive 2012 repository?
>
> (Yes, I could get going by installing the Fedora RPM and futzing my
> path, but I'm interested in the packaging aspect of this issue, not the
> functionality.)
>
> Please CC me in any replies since I'm not subscribed to the list.
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>