Bug 176716 - improper texdoc application bindings
Summary: improper texdoc application bindings
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tetex
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-12-30 19:34 UTC by Michael A. Peters
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-10 13:54:11 UTC
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Description Michael A. Peters 2005-12-30 19:34:56 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
As discussed on mailing list

The /usr/bin/texdoc script by default wants to use xdvi to view tetex documentation that is in the PDF format. xdvi is only installed by custom request, and not likely to be installed a lot of systems. evince would be a better default.

There is a workaround - by setting the environmental variable TEXDOCVIEW_pdf to something like evince or gnome-open in the users .bashrc file, ie - 

export TEXDOCVIEW_pdf='(evince %s) &'

but the texdoc script should default to applications that are more likely to be installed in Fedora Core rather than giving an error about xdvi not found.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e xdvi
2. texdoc somedoc
3.
  

Actual Results:  xdvi - command not found

Expected Results:  use evince by default

Additional info:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-December/msg01250.html

I'm *hoping* this will get fixed before fc5

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2005-12-30 19:56:15 UTC
I fixed that immediatelly after I sent the answer to your email on fedora-devel.
The new teTeX packages are now built on all arches except s390 and s390x that
are stuck for a few days. The packages will occur after they are built there.
It's enough time to let the fix occur in FC5.

Moving to MODIFIED and will close this RAWHIDE when the packages are built.


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