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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 120

[Solved] Problems with KILE installation

I've LaTeX (native, also the recommended installation in the Wiki) installed on my system, and everything is fine.  All editors I've tried are working just fine.  Except ...

Trying to install Kile, it also want to install (among other packages needed):
- texlive-basic (shown in the dependencies)
- texlive-bin-2023 (NOT shown in the dependencies list).

This means it does not recognize the native installation of LaTeX.

So, any idea how I can install it without thos etwo unneeded packages?

Thanks

Last edited by ben-arch (2023-11-18 09:29:05)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Problems with KILE installation

In contrast to native TeX Live, the packages in the Arch repositories tend not to include documentation, which is problematic as the documentation from CTAN is usually only available for the latest version of a TeX package.

isn't necessarily a "recommendation" to bypass the package manager.

texlive-bin is a dependency of texlive-basic

You could add a dummy package to resolve the dependency:

# Maintainer: Me <me at here>

pkgname=texlive-basic-dummy
pkgver=1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="texlive-basic dummy"
arch=('any')
license=('GPL')
depends=()
provides=(texlive-basic)

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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 120

Re: [Solved] Problems with KILE installation

Thank you!