Dear all,

I am sorry for posting several times. This is the summary.

By installing the two rpm packages:

# rpm -ivh tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh tetex-revtex-4.1-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm

as can be downloaded from the URLs of
http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html
http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-revtex-4.1-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html

on Scientific Linux 5/6 (or RHEL 5/6 or CentOS 5/6), we can compile
the old TeX articles for APS files with REVTeX 4 by latex, starting with

%% This file is part of the APS files in the REVTeX 4 distribution.
%% Version 4.0 of REVTeX, August 2001
%%
%%
%% Copyright (c) 2001 The American Physical Society.
%
% This is a template for producing manuscripts for use with REVTEX 4.0
% Copy this file to another name and then work on that file.
% That way, you always have this original template file to use.
%
% Add 'draft' option to mark overfull boxes with black boxes
% Add 'showpacs' option to make PACS codes appear
% Add 'showkeys' option to make keywords appear
%
%\documentclass[aps,prl,preprint,groupedaddress]{revtex4}
\documentclass[aps,prl,preprint,superscriptaddress,showpacs]{revtex4}
%\documentclass[aps,prl,twocolumn,groupedaddress]{revtex4}
%\documentclass[aps,prl,twocolumn,superscriptaddress,showpacs]{revtex4}
<snif>

and the recent TeX articles for APS files with REVTeX 4.1 starting with

%% ****** Start of file apstemplate.tex ****** %
%%
%%
%% This file is part of the APS files in the REVTeX 4 distribution.
%% Version 4.1r of REVTeX, August 2010
%%
%%
%% Copyright (c) 2001, 2009, 2010 The American Physical Society.
%%
%% See the REVTeX 4 README file for restrictions and more information.
%%
%
% This is a template for producing manuscripts for use with REVTEX 4.0
% Copy this file to another name and then work on that file.
% That way, you always have this original template file to use.
%
% Group addresses by affiliation; use superscriptaddress for long
% author lists, or if there are many overlapping affiliations.
% For Phys. Rev. appearance, change preprint to twocolumn.
% Choose pra, prb, prc, prd, pre, prl, prstab, prstper, or rmp for journal
% Add 'draft' option to mark overfull boxes with black boxes
% Add 'showpacs' option to make PACS codes appear
% Add 'showkeys' option to make keywords appear
%\documentclass[aps,prl,preprint,groupedaddress]{revtex4-1}
%\documentclass[aps,prl,preprint,superscriptaddress]{revtex4-1}
\documentclass[aps,prl,twocolumn,superscriptaddress]{revtex4-1}
%\documentclass[aps,prl,reprint,groupedaddress]{revtex4-1}
<snif>


on the same environment at the same time. This rpm packages
seems to be great ! I think this is the most easy way to co-exist
of revtex4 and revtex4-1 on SL4/5 (and RHLE 4/5 and CentOS4/5).

Best regards,
Takashi Ichihara (RIKEN)


>> On 2011.11.1 at 1:31 PM (JST), Jon Peatfiel wrote,
>>     
>>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Takashi ichihara wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> Recently APS Journals require RevTex 4.1 as well as the latest version
>>>> of the natbib package, version 8.31a which was released in November
>>>> 2009.
>>>>
>>>> https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/
>>>>
>>>> However, in the default TeX installation of SL6.1 (and SL5.7), only the
>>>> RevTex4 and old versions of natbib are installed.
>>>>         
>>> <snip>
>>>       
>>>> Does anyone know how to install RevTex 4.1 as well as the latest
>>>> version
>>>> of the natbib package, version 8.31a which was released in November
>>>> 2009
>>>> on SL5 and SL6 as system wide ?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>         
>>> For complex reasons we need to maintain availability of the default
>>> and older revtex (including the revtex 3.1!), so for revtex 4.1 we
>>> added a directory in texmf.local (but outside the usual search
>>> places) containing updated versions of:
>>>
>>> revtex, natbib, url
>>>
>>> those being the latest versions taken striaght from CTAN - latest at
>>> the time we were asked for it. Then for users to use it they need to
>>> set TEXINPUTS to include that directory before :: (meaning 'the usual
>>> path' of course), e.g. in our case (for historical reasons) we keep
>>> tex in /opt/tetex/ so the path to add is:
>>> /opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/revtex-4.1 and users can set something
>>> like:
>>>
>>> export TEXINPUTS=/opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/revtex-4.1::
>>>
>>> and similarly for BIBINPUTS/BSTINPUTS for bibtex etc.
>>>
>>> It is a bit of pain for users, but I really don't like messing with
>>> the existing default installed revtex as I have too many nightmares
>>> about breaking existing documents doing something similar many years
>>> ago.
>>>
>>>