Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

On 13 September 2017 at 11:42, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:

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On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote:

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Hi,

https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ says that pst-barcode is included in texlive.

I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty. Is that a bug in the packaging Centos does, or is texlive in Centos some derelict version?

CentOS has whatever version is in RHEL.

sudo yum provides '*pst-barcode*'

That says it is not available though in CentOS Linux 7.

texlive is a pain in the ass to have all the things that are included in contrib and other areas. The Fedora package breaks into 5932 different subpackages and the RHEL is a sub-build of those which are felt can be maintained for the lifetime of a EL release. If you need more than what EL provides, most people just take the 10->28 hours to build a set of tetex packages from the Fedora ones.

So far, it seems that this is pretty much the only thing that´s still missing, and it´s probably not difficult to install. I´ll try that first and see how it goes.

I could create a Fedora-VM and delegate this kind of work to it, but that has its own issues ...