LaTeX, pdf and imported 90-degrees rotated EPS images

The problem: In LaTeX, if I import an EPS file with \includegraphics and rotate it by 90 degrees, hell breaks lose in the resulting pdf file. My processing chain, in case you wonder, is latex, dvips and ps2pdf. I avoid pdflatex since it won’t import EPS (as far as I can recall) but only images [...]

Fedora: Adding an i686 repository on an x86_64 system

IMPORTANT: This post may very well be useless mumbo-jumbo of how to do something that should never be done anyhow. I post it only because I had it all written down neatly when I discovered that I could have skipped it all. From what I’ve seen, every you’ll need is in the x86_64 repository, including [...]