texlive / beamer / pgfxxx problem

[Dan Ports]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:33:46PM -0500, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
> Using pdflatex with the beamer package leads to "pgfcore.sty" not found.

This is bug #25478: the upstream texlive package database has a couple
of dependencies that don't fit into their package structure. The most
common one is the one you've run into: beamer is in
texlive-latex-recommended but it depends on pgf which is (for some
reason) in texlive-latex-extra.

You should be able to work around this by installing either the pgf
port or the texlive-latex-extra (which includes another 280MB of tex
packages you may or may not want.)

I will fix this shortly by making the port depend on pgf.

> /opt/local/var/macports/software/texlive_texmf-minimal/2007_3/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf

This file is from your deactivated texlive 2007 port.

Dan

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