[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 01:56:15 -0400
Hi Hendri,
Glad it worked out. Thanks for letting me know. I'll add some more
details below because it sounds like you're interested (but feel free
to ignore it):
TeX Live has an updater also that works perfectly for me ('tlmgr').
The issue I think is more of a Linux vs. Windows thing. Since on Linux
many software is free, it's possible to have a central repository. The
nice thing is that one can install software very easily and be
confident that everything will work well together (such as library
dependencies and stuff like that). For example, the command I would
use to install TeX Live, LyX, and Chromium is 'sudo apt-get install
texlive-full lyx chromium-browser'). Also it saves time because you
don't have to go to individual website, and all updates of your
software are handled for you. If my computer dies and I want to do a
fresh install, I just run one long command like the one above that
installs all the software and everything is taken care of
automatically. So there are a lot of nice things, but in some cases
things get tricky when something else once to manage updates.
Best,
Scott
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Hendri Adriaens <spotje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> thanks for the kind words! Indeed, it was pstricks that got
> restructured, leading to failures in more packages. I fixed it (and
> more) between last christmas and new year. Roger already sent me
> personally that he expected texlive to be updated. Thanks very much
> for your explanation in this matter as I don't know texlive because
> I'm using miktex (on windows), which has the miktex updater to get the
> latest updates.
>
> I expect the problem to be solved completely now, thanks!
>
> Best,
> -Hendri.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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 Thus, you are using an out-of-date TeX Live installation.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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