Fedora additional packages

[SepplL]

Maybe we can mention this in some appendix or further information section?

Needed to install multiple Perl packages to get latexmk running on fedora:

• perl-File-Copy
• perl-Time-HiRes
• perl-Unicode-Normalize
• perl-sigtrap
• perl-meta-notation

can this happen on other systems as well? Or is it a local and unique Perl-install weirdness on my machine?

Open for discussion and suggestions.

[aknierim]

Not a local weirdness on your machine. We encountered the same problem a few weeks ago on a machine with Fedora, too. So we should definitely mention this somewhere.

$ dnf repoquery --requires latexmk

should list all dependencies for latexmk. IIRC, we fixed it by installing latexmk separately from TeXLive via dnf.

[SepplL]

$ dnf repoquery --requires latexmk

returns the list

ghostscript
perl(Config)
perl(Cwd)
perl(Digest::MD5)
perl(Encode)
perl(File::Basename)
perl(File::Copy)
perl(File::Find)
perl(File::Glob)
perl(File::Path) >= 2.08
perl(File::Spec::Functions)
perl(FileHandle)
perl(List::Util)
perl(Time::HiRes)
perl(Unicode::Normalize)
perl(feature)
perl(sigtrap)
perl(strict)
perl(utf8)
perl(warnings)
tex-latex-bin
xdg-utils

In order to keep all installs fairly similar and consistent I would lean towards just mentioning the command or package list. I don't think there are too many Fedora users out there using this install protocol that are lost with a Perl error message the first time they use latexmk. But a simple hint would not be too much work.

[aknierim]

I think it would suffice if we mention installing latexmk via dnf.

[maxnoe]

Ubuntu is loosing a bit of user base over e.g. the snap curfuffle...

A one-liner (tested in latest fedora docker) would be:

 dnf install -y $(dnf repoquery --requires --resolve latexmk | grep perl)

I think we should add that to the install instructions.

[aknierim]

That is a neat solution