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

[Rudi Gaelzer]

There is indeed a workaround that you can find in a previous thread.
I'd also vote for a proper fix of this lack, since the preview pack is 
important for some latex frontend, such as LyX.


On Friday 28 September 2012 16:43:39 Colin Macdonald wrote:
> 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
> 
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