On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:10 -0700, Michael Hannon wrote: > Hi, folks. One of our SL 3 users has requested that we install vlatex, > evidently for the purpose of producing PDF files directly from TeX > files. See, for instance: > > ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex/linux/readme-linux.eng > > Does anybody know of an RPM package for this? I don't know the answer, but have you tried to get them to use pdftex and pdflatex? If what you want is direct TeX ->pdf these work great. They are part of standard tetex. John Franks