CTAN update: texlive-dummy-opensuse

Date: July 12, 2026 12:55:07 PM CEST

Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the texlive-dummy-opensuse package. Version: 2026.9999-2 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Dummy TeX Live RPM for use with Open SUSE Announcement text:

Update for TeXLive 2026

This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/support/texlive/texlive-dummy/openSUSE More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/texlive-dummy-opensuse

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texlive-dummy-opensuse – Dummy TeX Live RPM for use with Open SUSE

The package solves a problem relating to use of TeX Live under a Linux distribution: Linux distributions typically require LaTeX by default, but only distribute a rather out-of-date version. So, by default, the user who wants to use current TeX Live has to undertake “dirty tricks” to override the default Linux TeX.

The solution is to declare that LaTeX is already installed; a later installation of TeX Live will therefore have no problem running on the system. The present package solves the problem for openSUSE Linux distributions.

Package	texlive-dummy-opensuse
Version	2026.9999-2
Maintainer	Rolf Niepraschk

CTAN update: texlive-dummy-opensuse

texlive-dummy-opensuse – Dummy TeX Live RPM for use with Open SUSE

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