[powerdot] Re: powerdot has been broken on texlive 2013 for 5 months
- From: Scott Kostyshak <skostysh@xxxxxxx>
- To: powerdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:32:26 -0400
Hi Roger,
Your document compiles fine here (Ubuntu with an up-to-date TeX Live
installation). I think the underlying issue is what I reported
reported a couple of months ago, and Hendri was *extremely* fast in
responding and subsequently getting a fix out (thank you Hendri!). I'm
not even sure that the underlying problem was Powerdot's fault --- one
of the underlying packages was restructured.
Thus, you are using an out-of-date TeX Live installation. This is the
responsibility of the package manager of whatever package contains
powerdot on Fedora. What can Hendri do if they're not using the latest
version?
The root problem of this is that you're not using tlmgr to update your
TeX Live installation. Linux package managers want to be the only
managers of the system so that they can make sure everything plays
nice together. But this leads to problems.
One solution is to tell Fedora's package manager that you have a local
installation of TeX Live. Then, Fedora's package manager will not try
to install dependencies that are already satisfied by your local
install. On Ubuntu, you can install TeX Live and notify Ubuntu's
package manager all with one command. See
https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu
This has been tested and it works well for many users.
I'm guessing this would not be too hard to port to Fedora.
Best,
Scott
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Hendri Adriaens <spotje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Did you use the version uploaded on 1/1/2014?
>
> -Hendri.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Roger Griffiths
> <griffiths.roger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Even the simplest file will not 'compile'; errors in the ps2pdf process.
>> I saw that there were some issues on ctan, but I run fedora and get my
>> texlive files via their repositories.
>>
>> Even a files such as this will not work:
>>
>> \documentclass{powerdot}
>>
>> \title{Powerdot Test}
>> \author{Roger}
>> \date{March 2014}
>> \begin{document}
>> \maketitle
>> \section{First section}
>> \begin{slide}{Your Name Here \$ 5.00}
>> \begin{itemize}
>> \item This is an item
>> \item second item
>> \pause
>> \item Third item
>> \end{itemize}
>> \end{slide}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> Is this going to ever get resolved?
>>
>>
>
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