[OS X TeX] installing fonts w/ macports install -- where to put them?

Ettore Aldrovandi ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu
Sun Jul 2 20:25:37 CEST 2017


Because the MacTeX distribution would install components, e.g. ghostscript, that are presumably already installed by MacPorts. Granted, they can be deselected during install. 

John, if you are already proficient with the terminal (you use MacPorts, after all) you can also directly install TeXLive, not the whole of MacTeX, into /usr/local/texlive or any other directory of your preference. This is more flexible than installing the MacPorts, er… port.

I don’t understand your remark below about running as root. It’s not needed except for installation. One thing you could do, after installing TeXLive into /usr/local, is to chown /usr/local/texlive to yourself, keeping wheel as the group. You already are the administrator, after all. After that, no sudo.

—Ettore

> On Jul 1, 2017, at 20:45, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So a naive question: if you don’t want to put local fonts where the MacPorts tex puts them, inside the /opt//local/share tree but are willing to put them in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local., then why not just use the MacTeX distribution instead of the MacPorts packages?
> 
>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 7:53 PM, John Owens <john_owens at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I am using the MacPorts texlive installation. Everything is located in /opt/local. I have all config variables at their defaults.
>> 
>> Historically I have installed fonts using the LCDF Typetools, which puts everything in ~/.texlive20xx. So every year I need to reinstall my fonts with the new release. This is OK, no big deal.
>> 
>> This year, however, "updmap" is either "updmap-sys" or "updmap-user". All the documentation strongly suggests that "updmap-sys" is the way to go. Presumably I would like to do this so that I don't have to reinstall fonts every year. Although I'm OK with reinstalling every year, it seems better if I never have to!
>> 
>> By default, the docs suggest that the system tree ought to put things in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. This seems good since it could survive from year to year. However, macports sets TEXMFLOCAL=/opt/local/share/texmf-local. I would prefer NOT to put things there, since one of the benefits of MacPorts is that at any time I can just delete all of /opt/local without consequence.
>> 
>> So, what is the recommended solution here? Would it be to set TEXMFLOCAL to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local? For either /usr/local or /opt/local, I then have to run as root (which I never had to do before). I feel like use case 1 (http://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html), single-user computer - add fonts, is my use case. But I don't like running as root and I don't like having to mess with any defaults (TEXMFLOCAL) -- I can live with either but don't love either.
>> 
>> JDO
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