TexLive 2013 for Mageia2?

[LaCiccia]

Hi!
How can I install TexLive 2013 on Mageia 2 i586? I previously had TexLive 2011 for Mageia 2 installed through the repository but I have uninstalled it and I am looking for the 2013 version with updated features such as the fontawesome + fontspec support for moderncv package which is not available for Texlive 2011.
I have found this website: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/searc ... ry=texlive
but I don't know what to pick from the list.
I suppose I should download and try installing the SourceForge.net rpm: texlive-20130530-1.ram0.97.i686.rpm?

Can someone please help me out?

[marja]

I'd start with the home page of the project http://tug.org/texlive/ and use the instructions that are available there (there are also mailing lists).

For Mageia, malo is currently doing a lot of work on TexLive and related packages. I hope that when he finished doing the most urgent things, that he'll have time to update TexLive in cauldron to version 2013, so that it'll be in Mageia 4.

[LaCiccia]

Suppose TexLive 2013 comes out at the end of the year, do I have to replace Mageia 2 with Mageia 4 otherwise I will have some problem installing TeXlive 2013?

[marja]

Suppose TexLive 2013 comes out at the end of the year, do I have to replace Mageia 2 with Mageia 4 otherwise I will have some problem installing TeXlive 2013?

Well, you'll have to replace Mageia 2 anyway, because it'll reach the end of its life end of November.

For a production system, we don't advise to use Mageia 4 before it is stable (expected February 1st), though, so if you need a system you can rely on, you'll have to use Mageia 3 for a while.

Tbh, I don't expect a complicated package like TeXLive to install well on a different Mageia version than it was made for.

[marja]

You might want to have a look at http://tug.org/texlive/ again.

I asked Malo on IRC, and he replied:

2013:09:15:18:08 < malo> marja: I would recommend the user to install from tug directly

2013:09:15:18:16 < malo> marja: it's just that we will not update texlive for mga2, and any
other package will likely be compiled with newer libs, and therefore
not work.