Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 13 September 2017 at 11:42, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote: >>> >>> 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 ...