Re: Rumor: installing from repository without texlive

[David Kastrup]

tapani <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to install Rumor from the Ubuntu (14.10) repository, but it
> includes the following dependencies: tex-common, texinfo and
> texlive-binaries.

Two questions: what are you trying to use it with?

> I prefer to install texlive vanilla from source, but apt-get doesn't
> seem to recognise it in this case (it does in others). Is there a way
> round this, other than compiling rumor from source?

Just install the system texlive if you can spare the space.  That's the
least maintenance-intensive solution.  Then point your PATH variable to
look at your TeXlive binary directory first.

For AUCTeX, I have a command that lets me select between system and
various manually installed TeXlive versions.  If you are using Emacs, I
can post the code to do that here.

-- 
David Kastrup