[tex-live] TeX Live 2008 does not install on FreeBSD

Conny Andersson unitex at telia.com
Mon Mar 9 18:55:44 CET 2009


Hello,

I am from Sweden and has been a member of TeX Users Group since many years. 
Earlier, when TeX Live come on CDs FreeBSD was not supported, but the DVDs 
from the last couple of years have installed without problems - up to TeX 
Live 2008:

root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # ./install-tl
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs failed at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 1042.
./tlpkg/installer/lzma/lzmadec.i386-freebsd --help failed (status 256): No such 
file or directory
Output is:
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by 
"lzmadec.i386-freebsd"
Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
Cannot continue with installation.
Please report to texlive at tug.org.

root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # locate libc.so.7
root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # (not found)

root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # locate libc.so.
/lib/libc.so.6
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6
/usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libc.so.6
/usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.4
/usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.5

Apparently the installer suffers from 'Linuxism'. There is no libc.so.7 in 
FreeBSD 6.4 from FreeBSD Mall of December 24 2008. Is it possible for me to 
do a workaround?

The Tex Live 2007 DVD could be installed without problems, but I want Tex 
Live 2008 to install (TeTeX wich is a port on FreeBSD, is aging). TeX Live 
2007 does install as can be seen below:

root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # ./install-tl.sh

Welcome to TeX Live installation. (Tue Mar  3 20:39:18 CET 2009)

Initializing collections...
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
Done initializing collections.
Initializing system packages... done.
Counting selected collections... done.
Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.

===================> TeX Live installation procedure <==================

===> Note: Letters/digits in <angle brackets> indicate menu items <===
===>       for commands or configurable options                   <===

     Proposed platform: Intel x86 with FreeBSD
     <P> override system detection and choose platform
     <B> binary systems:         1 out of 15
     <S> Installation scheme (scheme_full)
         [to customize within installation scheme:
          <C> standard collections   <L> language collections]
     82 out of 85, disk space required: 1111249 kB
     <D> directories:
       TEXDIR      (main TeX directory):     /usr/local/texlive/2007
       TEXMFSYSVAR (systemwide config): /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var
       TEXMFLOCAL  (systemwide styles etc.): /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
       TEXMFHOME   (personal styles etc.):   $HOME/texmf
     <O> options:
        [ ] alternate directory for generated fonts ()
        [ ] create symlinks in standard directories
        [ ] do not install macro/font doc tree
        [ ] do not install macro/font source tree
     <R> do not install files, set up to run off CD or DVD
     <I> start installation
     <H> help,  <Q> quit

Enter command: q


With the best regards,
Conny

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Conny Andersson
Lango
SE-530 10 VEDUM
SWEDEN
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