Re: [AUCTeX] preview-latex on Fedora Core 4

[David Kastrup]

Alejandro Jakubi <address@hidden> writes:

> I intend to try AUCTeX with preview-latex. I have Fedora Core 4 and
> what yum got was ver. 11.81 in emacs-auctex-11.81-1.fc4.rpm, where
> preview-latex is missing.
>
> I have thought of different possibilities:
>
> 1. copying (by hand) the missing files from auctex-11.82-pkg.tar.gz
>
> 2. idem, but from the compilation of auctex-11.82.tar.gz
>
> 3. make install of this compilation over the rpm instalation
>
> 4. make install of just preview-latex in case that there is an option
> for that
>
> Which is the recomended way to add preview-latex?

Complain to the maintainer of the 11.81 package.  There is no excuse
to disable preview-latex when building since it always can be done
using with options --without-texmf-dir in which case none of the
preview parts need to get coordinated with teTeX or other packages.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum