Unable to update to MikTeX 21.1 on Fedora 33

[petermelzner]

Using the Fedora 32 repository (since there it no one for Fedora 33), it's not possible to update from MikTeX 20.12 to 21.1 on Fedora 33:

# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 33 (Thirty Three)
# dnf update
MiKTeX Fedora 32                                                                                                              6.4 kB/s | 2.9 kB     00:00
Abhängigkeiten sind aufgelöst.

 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package miktex-20.12-1.fc32.x86_64
  - nothing provides libboost_locale.so.1.69.0()(64bit) needed by miktex-21.1-1.fc32.x86_64
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 Package                   Architecture              Version                        Repository                           Size
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Pakete mit nicht auflösbaren Abhängigkeiten werden übersprungen:
 miktex                    x86_64                    21.1-1.fc32                    miktex-fedora-32                     18 M

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[xyzhou-1]

Maybe because Fedora 32 provides boost-local-1.69 but your pc(Fedora 33) provides boost-local-1.73.0. You can build miktex yourself if time enough.There already has a Dockerfile, just replace FROM fedora:32 with FROM fedora:33.(I don't know if it's ok that install boost-local-1.69 on Fedora 33.If you don't mind.Try that)

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Update:I find Fedora 33 don't provide qt5-devel now(I don't use Fedora ,sorry for wrong suggestion).So it seems that you can't build miktex on Fedora 33.The problem may not be solved until Fedora 33 releases qt5-devel.

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Update:My mistake.There is no qt5-devel( a package group) on Fedora 33, But Fedora 33 provides qt5-qtbase-devel ,qt5-qtscript-devel, qt5-qttools-devel and other separate components. 😢 .I'm a newbie,sorry.Just try to help.

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Update:I successfully compiled miktex in a Fedora 33 docker container,just change qt5-devel to qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtscript-devel qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qttools-static

[edocevoli]

fc33 is now supported.

[petermelzner]

This is great news, thanks a lot!

However, after updating MikTeX on Fedora 33 MikTeX crashes on quite a lot of LaTeX files, for example:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{picinpar}

\begin{document}

    \begin{figwindow}[1,c,{
            \includegraphics[width=4.0cm,draft]{example-image.png}
        },{figwindow in a text}\label{fig}]
        \lipsum[1]
    \end{figwindow}

\end{document}

results in

$ pdflatex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (MiKTeX 21.3)
...
Output written on issue_38.pdf (1 page, 48716 bytes).
Transcript written on issue_38.log.
Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben)

Is this a problem of the Fedora 33 build or is this a generic MikTeX 21.3 problem? -> I will open a new issue.