{"id":1925,"date":"2016-11-17T19:33:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2016-11-17T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:34:06","slug":"texlive-is-crippled-in-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/11\/17\/texlive-is-crippled-in-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"TexLive is crippled in Centos 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, what a joy discovering that TexLive packages in CentOS 7 are bugged or crippled beyond any reasonable amount!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furthermore<strong> TeXlive in distros like CentOS 7 is crippled<\/strong> since they don&#8217;t offer the TeXlive Manager called tlmgr. So updating packages is a pain, since it has to be done manually, which is far from being trouble-free &#8212; newer versions of LaTeX packages could depend on newer versions of other LaTeX packages and so on and so on.And at last, TeXlive is just a snapshot of CTAN, at least regarding LaTeX packages and lots of other stuff. So having a possibility to update sounds like a very good idea to me.So as conclusion: Just forget the TeXlive packages from CentOS 7. Install the regular TeXlive. [5] As prerequisites you need to install the CentOS packages &#8220;perl-Tk&#8221; and &#8220;perl-Digest-MD5&#8221;, afterwards the installation should be pain-free<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centos.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=54410\">[RESOLVED] missing texlive files in Centos 7? &#8211; CentOS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quite frankly I consider quite a failure to rely on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tug.org\/texlive\/quickinstall.html\">TexLive specific installer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Oh, what a joy discovering that TexLive packages in CentOS 7 are bugged or crippled beyond any reasonable amount! Furthermore TeXlive in distros like CentOS 7 is crippled since they don&#8217;t offer the TeXlive Manager called tlmgr. So updating packages is a pain, since it has to be done manually, which is far from being&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/11\/17\/texlive-is-crippled-in-centos-7\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tex","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-v3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1598,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/05\/27\/hugin-on-centos-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":1925,"position":0},"title":"Hugin on Centos 7","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2016-05-27","format":false,"excerpt":"To update corporate website and for a EcoMondo I had to stitch some photos I've made a couple of weeks ago. 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