LaTeX missing for mandriva 2008.1 or 2008.0

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dr_smit wrote on Friday, May 09, 2008:

[root@smitdesk dr_smit]# urpmi LaTeX
No package named LaTeX
The following packages contain LaTeX:
cpp2latex
culmus-latex
fonts-ttf-latex
kdenetwork-kopete-latex
latex-beamer
latex-lettre
latex-mk
latex2html
openoffice.org-writer2latex
tetex-latex
tetex-latex-arab
tetex-latex-heb
texlive-latex
texlive-texmf-latex
vim-latex
writer2latex
writer2latex-javadoc

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jeff_ross wrote on Friday, May 09, 2008:

Try tetex-latex.

http://www.tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfdist/doc/

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dr_smit wrote on Friday, May 09, 2008:

thanks for a quick reply

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jeff_ross wrote on Friday, May 09, 2008:

Another option is the texlive-latex package.  texlive can be run from a dvd or installed to hard drive, and is actively developed by the tex users group.  OpenBSD has switched its version of latex from tetex to texlive in the ports/packages system.