pdflatex

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Erik Kruiter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a PLD-RPM that contains the 'pdflatex', of 'pdftex' binary?
> Or is some packet coming?

Of course:

$ rpm -qf `which pdflatex` `which pdftex`
tetex-pdftex-1.0.7.beta_20001218-9
tetex-pdftex-1.0.7.beta_20001218-9

You can also check which packages contains file described by patern
without installed in system resources packeges but using poldek program
avalaible in PLD:

$ poldek
Loading ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/PLD/i686/PLD/RPMS/packages.dir.gz...
3840 packages read
Loading db packages [/var/lib/rpm]..................done
1535 packages loaded

Welcome to the poldek shell mode. Type "help" for help with commands.

> search -l *pdftex*
Searching packages..........................................done.
6 package(s) found:
jadetex-3.5-2
tetex-1.0.7.beta_20001218-9
tetex-dvips-1.0.7.beta_20001218-9
tetex-latex-1.0.7.beta_20001218-9
tetex-pdftex-1.0.7.beta_20001218-9
xmltex-20000907-1

using this tool you can browse any package (files lists, descriptins ..)
without installing package (you can even use this functions without
runing poldek from root account).

kloczek
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