<div>On Solaris, I followed the 'TeX Live - Quick Install' procedure (not running the installation as root)</div> <div><A href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html">http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html</A></div> <div> </div> <div>using the zipped ISO image </div> <div><A href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/texlive-live.iso.zip">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/texlive-live.iso.zip</A></div> <div> </div> <div>Testing TeX as another user got numerous Permission denied errors, something like: </div> <div> </div> <div>% latex sample2e.tex<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R: Permission denied<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-r: Permission denied<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/aliases: Permission denied<BR>This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)<BR> %&-line
parsing enabled.<BR>kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R: Permission denied<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-r: Permission denied<BR>/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/aliases: Permission denied<BR>...</div> <div> </div> <div>Permissions look odd on some of the installed directories (below). </div> <div>texmf and texmf lacked x permission for general users. </div> <div>texmf-var was rw for everyone - surely that can't be right? </div> <div> </div> <div>% ls -l<BR>total 48<BR>drwxr-xr-x 3 tex tex 4096 Jan 22 11:48 bin<BR>drwxr--r-- 19 tex tex 4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf<BR>drwxr-xr-x 18 tex
tex 4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf-dist<BR>drwxr-xr-x 5 tex tex 4096 Jan 22 11:49 texmf-doc<BR>drwxr--r-- 8 tex tex 4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf-local<BR>drwxrw-rw- 8 tex tex 4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf-var<BR>% </div> <div> </div> <div>In the end, I just did this (in the texlive installation directory): </div> <div> </div> <div>% chmod -R go=u-w 2007</div> <div> </div> <div>That seems to have fixed it, and I hope it was correct, </div> <div> </div> <div>But shouldn't the install script take care of this - and if not, shouldn't the documentation cover it? </div><p> 
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