... at least with the texlive-distro. What is needed: - dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2007 - dev-texlive/texlive-langfrench-2007 Plus (and this is the real point for this bug): picins.sty This is a bit tricky since there's no license for this package. It can be found here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/picins.html
It this is not obsolete I don't know what is. texlive-latexextra-2007 long gone