[tex-live] texlive 2018 doesn't work on redhat/centos 6

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 10:50:26 CEST 2018


2018-04-09 10:47 GMT+02:00 Johannes Hielscher <jhielscher at posteo.de>:

> > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018, Greg' Ar Tourter wrote:
> > > server running centos6 and binaries seems to require glibc 2.14
> > > (RH/centos
> >
> > Unfortunately it looks like it. The problem is that several programs
> > require C++11 standard, which is only supported in Debian/jessie and
> > above.
> >
> > > Is that intentional?
> >
> > So, unfortunately yes.
>
> Oh dear. They will maintain this already seven-years-old release for
> another two years ( https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product ). IMHO, this
> may be worth another cautionary \item at the top of (e. g.)
> http://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html that reads something like:
>
> TeX Live 2018 on Linux relies on glibc>=2.14. For users of Debian<8
> (jessie), RHEL/CentOS<7, SLES<12, we recommend to use TeX Live packages
> provided by their distribution instead, or fall back to (frozen) <a
> href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2017/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
> ">TeX
> Live 2017</a>.
>

I have just installed TL 2018 successfully on CentOS 7. I will not use it
there,
I just wanted to test whether it works.

>
> Not happy about recommending de-facto deprecated versions. (How long
> will the mirrors actually provide the 2017 binary packages?) But
> arguably better than users continuing to stumble upon this.
>
> The minimum glibc prerequisite should be at least included in the
> release notes/notable changes.
>
> The listing on the Quick Install page might also be a place for Simon's
> RPi page.
>
> Best,
> Johannes
>



Zdeněk Wagner
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