[OS X TeX] installing TeX-Fat.dmg

Tim Lighthiser lighthisertim at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 27 08:38:53 CET 2002



Thank you!

1) The following BDS files came up in a search:
CBSDBackingStore.strings
perf-bsd44.html
BSD Configuration Files
BSD Configuration Files.dsplug
wrG11BSD.htm
CBSDBackingStore.strings
CBSDBackingStore.strings

2) in terminal, when i do /usr/bin/basename: Command
not found.

3) in terminal, when i do ls /usr/bin 
a2p                 head                ntpq          
     sed
appletviewer        hostinfo            open          
     serialver
arch                hoststat            openssl       
     sftp
awk                 id                  perl          
     slogin
c2ph                idlj                perl5.6.0     
     splain
c_rehash            jar                 perlbug       
     split
certtool            jarsigner           perlcc        
     ssh
chflags             java                perldoc       
     ssh-add
chgrp               javac               pl2pm         
     ssh-agent
cpio                javadoc             pod2html      
     ssh-keygen
crontab             javah               pod2latex     
     ssh-keyscan
cups-config         javap               pod2man       
     sudo
cut                 keytool             pod2text      
     sw_vers
ditto               lockfile            pod2usage     
     tail
dprofpp             logger              podchecker    
     tar
ex                  login               podselect     
     tnameserv
extcheck            lsbom               policytool    
     touch
false               machine             procmail      
     tr
find                mailq               pstruct       
     true
find2perl           mailstat            purgestat     
     tset
formail             more                reset         
     uname
getopt              native2ascii        rmic          
     update_prebinding
groups              newaliases          rmid          
     vacation
h2ph                nice                rmiregistry   
     vi
h2xs                nicl                s2p           
     view
hdid                niutil              sample        
     wc
hdiutil             ntp-wait            scp           
     whoami

4) negative on fink and all others

Thank you!

Tim










Tim
--- Michael Murray <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
wrote:
> >Michael Murray wrote:
> >
> >>  > Thank you Michael,
> >>>
> >>>  The icon is now clickable, but when I try to
> install
> >>>  "Unarchiving failed . . ." appears and the
> following
> >>>  is in the message box/es (and so on for TeX
> foundation
> >>>  and TeX programs)
> >>>
> >>>  gs6.01.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such
> file or
> >>>  directory
> >>>  gs6.01.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such
> file or
> >>>  directory
> >>>  tar (child): Cannot exec gzip: No such file or
> >>
> >>
> >>If Ted's idea doesn't work the  I don't know what
> is going on.
> >>
> >>If in Terminal you  do
> >>which basename
> >>does it say
> >>/usr/bin/basename
> >>
> >>Or if you do ls /usr/bin is there a basename in
> the resulting file
> >>list ?
> >>
> >>
> >>Have you installed anything else into the unix
> side of the mac ?
> >>Fink by any chance ?
> >
> >Quite probably he doesn't have the BSD subsystem
> installed. 
> >basename, gzip and somewhat over 300 other commands
> in /usr/bin are 
> >only installed if you check the "Install BSD
> system" box during the 
> >installation of Mac OSX. Apple seems to think that
> the typical 
> >mouse-clicking analphabetical Mac user doesn't need
> these.
> >
> >--
> >Martin
> >
> 
> 
> Ah good thought Martin. ( I thought this was a
> default part of the
> install that you could turn off if you wanted to but
> which would
> install if you didn't?  )  Tim do you recall if you
> installed the
> BSD sub system ?
> 
> Michael
> 
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