I always install official TeXLive in /usr/local/texlive - yum update thanks me. Every few months I update it, but keeping it outside of RPM means I don't get tons of individual packages, many that I never use, constantly updating in yum. On 07/21/2017 11:46 AM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nicolas Kovacs [mailto:info at microlinux.fr] >> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 2:29 AM >> To: CentOS >> Subject: [CentOS] TeX Live on CentOS 7 >> >> Hi, >> >> I just installed the OpenVAS vulnerability scanner on my CentOS 7 >> workstation. Everything seems to work fine, except PDF generation. The >> 'openvas-check-setup' script tells me that PDF generation works fine, >> but whenever I want to generate a report, the result is unusable and >> can't open in Evince or Okular. >> >> After googling a bit, I found out that several users complained that Tex >> Live is broken under RHEL/CentOS 7. >> >> While I did use LaTeX a long time ago to write documents, I don't use it >> anymore nowadays (just Markdown or LibreOffice). But I do need a working >> installation of TeX Live for OpenVAS PDF reports. >> >> What can I do now? Perform a manual installation of TeX Live with their >> provided installer (to /opt) and then blacklist all texlive* packages? I >> admit I'm a bit surprised that a distribution like RHEL/CentOS that >> prises quality wouldn't provide a working TeX Live in their package >> repositories. >> >> Any suggestions? > > The users that were complaining, were they all OpenVAS user? > > Going from my experiences on CentOS 6, I find it surprising that LaTeX is not working. > Does even the trivial.tex from [0] compile? > Can you get the LaTeX file that OpenVAS is generating, and on the command line run pdflatex (or other latex compile command) on it and capture the error messages? > This might point to missing packages/fonts. > > It may be possible that not enough of texlive has been installed. I tend to do a `yum install \*latex\*` (and answer no) to see what is available and then install every latex thing that is not a -devel package. That way I never have to think about getting packages again, or if I do I will pretty much know I'll have to get it from CTAN myself. > seeing [1] from the opanvas wiki makes me think you should try `yum install \*latex\*extra\*` and see if it is now available. And as seen elsewhere [2] sometimes rpm packager's don't name them the same as LaTeX packagers. And it looks like[3] a lot of folks take the same 'trash the distro' perspective as openvas[1] which is unfortunate. Perhaps we could ask the CentOS-extras (and a RHEL or EPEL ticket) folks if they would be willing to rebuild the needed packages from an old Fedora RPM if they are not yet available in a EL repository. Have you checked EPEL? > > > [0] https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48421 > [1] https://wiki.openvas.org/index.php/Generate_a_PDF_report#CentOS_7 > [2] https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/166140 > [3] https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54410 > > -- > Even when this disclaimer is not here: > I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -=- Sent my from my laptop, may not be able to respond timely