Hi all! Some news concerning the backports of TeX Live 2007 Debian packages to etch. I have stopped to provide my own binaries and switched to using www.backports.org. Advantage of that is that we will have uptodate binaries for all different architectures, not only for those I manage to compile for or ask someone to compile for. For you that means: - the installation source for texlive-bin has changed, please see http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions on how to use the backports service. In a nut shell: . add deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main to your /etc/apt/source.list . call aptitude update . install any package with aptitude -t etch-backports install texlive-base-bin .... - all arch = all packages (i.e., all the others) can be either taken from the testing repository with pinning (see again the above page for detailed descriptions), but I will continue to have them around in my repository on people.debian.org. So to some the situation up: texlive and tex-common deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2007/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ src/ texlive-bin deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main (but the source is also available from the above location) lmodern deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ context deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ The package has been accepted into backports.org only today, so currently there are only i386 binaries, but soon there should be all the other archs, too. I hope that this service integrates better into the normal backport world most people are using. If you have any questions, just let me know. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUNDERFIELD (n.) A meadow selected, whilst driving past, as being ideal for a picnic which, from a sitting position, turns out to be full of stubble, dust and cowpats, and almost impossible to enjoy yourself in. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff