R help - Jan 2013 - Problem with inconsolata font (again) --- on Fedora 17 this time.

Some while ago I posted a problem on this list concerning a failure of
R CMD check on one of my packages that resulted from LaTeX being
unable to find the "inconsolata" font.  This was under the Ubuntu OS.

This was solved, thanks to advice I got from this list, basically by
doing

     sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra

I am now (for reasons which I won't go into) running Fedora 17, on a
different computer.  Now LaTeX cannot find the necessary inconsolata.sty
file.

I googled around a bit, and an item I found led me to check whether I
actually had texlive installed on my (new) system.  I hadn't!!!  So I did

     sudo yum install texlive

and that seemed to work.  But then the item I'd found indicated that I
should do

     sudo yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font

But I got:
> No package texlive-inconsolata, available.
> No package texlive-inconsolata-font available.
I also tried

     sudo yum install texlive-fonts-extra

with a similar result.

Can anyone give me a simple recipe as to how to get the inconsolata font
and the associated inconsolata.sty?

Thanks.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner

Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 ? 14:50 +1300, Rolf Turner a ?crit
:
> Some while ago I posted a problem on this list concerning a failure of
> R CMD check on one of my packages that resulted from LaTeX being
> unable to find the "inconsolata" font.  This was under the Ubuntu
OS.
> 
> This was solved, thanks to advice I got from this list, basically by
> doing
> 
>      sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra
> 
> I am now (for reasons which I won't go into) running Fedora 17, on a
> different computer.  Now LaTeX cannot find the necessary inconsolata.sty
> file.
> 
> I googled around a bit, and an item I found led me to check whether I
> actually had texlive installed on my (new) system.  I hadn't!!!  So I
did
> 
>      sudo yum install texlive
> 
> and that seemed to work.  But then the item I'd found indicated that I
> should do
> 
>      sudo yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font
> 
> But I got:
> 
> > No package texlive-inconsolata, available.
> > No package texlive-inconsolata-font available.
> 
> I also tried
> 
>      sudo yum install texlive-fonts-extra
> 
> with a similar result.
> 
> Can anyone give me a simple recipe as to how to get the inconsolata font
> and the associated inconsolata.sty?
texlive-inconsolata is present on Fedora 18 at least. You can try
installing it manually and check if it works for F17:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=texlive-inconsolata

But what does this command return?
yum search inconsolata


My two cents

On 11/01/2013 01:50, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Some while ago I posted a problem on this list concerning a failure of
> R CMD check on one of my packages that resulted from LaTeX being
> unable to find the "inconsolata" font.  This was under the Ubuntu
OS.
>
> This was solved, thanks to advice I got from this list, basically by
> doing
>
>      sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra
>
> I am now (for reasons which I won't go into) running Fedora 17, on a
> different computer.  Now LaTeX cannot find the necessary inconsolata.sty
> file.
>
> I googled around a bit, and an item I found led me to check whether I
> actually had texlive installed on my (new) system.  I hadn't!!!  So I
did
>
>      sudo yum install texlive
>
> and that seemed to work.  But then the item I'd found indicated that I
> should do
>
>      sudo yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font
>
> But I got:
>
>> No package texlive-inconsolata, available.
>> No package texlive-inconsolata-font available.
>
> I also tried
>
>      sudo yum install texlive-fonts-extra
>
> with a similar result.
>
> Can anyone give me a simple recipe as to how to get the inconsolata font
> and the associated inconsolata.sty?
Install texlive 2012.  The texlive version in Fedora (<= 17, and 17 is 
the current release with 18 having been delayed yet again) is many years 
out of date (2007: this is 2013!), and you will save yourself a lot of 
other problems.
>
> Thanks.
>
>      cheers,
>
>          Rolf Turner
>
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On 2013-01-11 01:50, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Some while ago I posted a problem on this list concerning a failure of
> R CMD check on one of my packages that resulted from LaTeX being
> unable to find the "inconsolata" font.  This was under the Ubuntu
OS.
>
> This was solved, thanks to advice I got from this list, basically by
> doing
>
>     sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra
>
> I am now (for reasons which I won't go into) running Fedora 17, on a
> different computer.  Now LaTeX cannot find the necessary inconsolata.sty
> file.
>
> I googled around a bit, and an item I found led me to check whether I
> actually had texlive installed on my (new) system.  I hadn't!!!  So I
did
>
>     sudo yum install texlive
>
> and that seemed to work.  But then the item I'd found indicated that I
> should do
>
>     sudo yum install texlive-inconsolata, texlive-inconsolata-font
>
> But I got:
>
>> No package texlive-inconsolata, available.
>> No package texlive-inconsolata-font available.
>
> I also tried
>
>     sudo yum install texlive-fonts-extra
>
> with a similar result.
>
> Can anyone give me a simple recipe as to how to get the inconsolata font
> and the associated inconsolata.sty?
>
> Thanks.
>
>     cheers,
>
>         Rolf Turner
>
One option is to install texlive-2012 for Fedora 17 following the
instructions detailed here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive#TeX_Live_2012_2

For Fedora 18 (that will be released next Wednesday) this is the default.

FWIW the delay in texlive update was due to the (la)tex classes auditing
that was only completed last year.


Regards,

-- 
Jos? Matos