[Discuss] Package Management is Bane of Latex

[George Farris]

Or dump Debian and go Arch. You will be so glad you did after a couple of 
months. Really you will. You could use Antergos or install straight Arch. 
Either way life is good after you get it installed. Arch also has probably 
the best wiki site on the planet for Linux info.

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On September 24, 2016 11:17:44 AM "Alan W. Irwin" 
<irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:

> On 2016-09-23 12:55-0700 pw wrote:
>
>> Hello Again,
>>
>> All is well.
>> Installing texlive-full fixed my packages for all TeX editors.
>>
>> Kile is happy. Life is good.
>
> Hi Peter:
>
> I was going to say before you resolved this that the Debian TeX suite
> package management "just works" for me.  Also, I never use the CTAN
> site since it conflicts with the Debian packaged version of the Tex
> suite. Normally, I install just the Debian texlive packages that I
> need. However, if you installed also from the CTAN site, then you
> likely could resolve that conflict by overwriting those results via
> installing the Debian texlive-full package (which automatically
> installs all other Debian texlive packages via the Debian package
> dependency mechanism).
>
> Alan
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