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