<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div><br></div><div>I too (but on Mac OS X) many years ago changed ownership of /usr/local/texlive</div><div>to me</div><div><br></div><div>Spares quite a few hassles in various situations.</div><div><br></div><div>TeX Live Utility detects it and does not use sudo then.</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-François</div><div><br><div><div>Le 29 avr. 2016 à 10:27, Zdenek Wagner <<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>as already written several times, it is not recommended to install TL as root in Linux. Thus many years ago I manually created (as root) /usr/local/texlive and changed ownership of this directory to me. Can MacTeX bi installed by an ordinary user if this additional step is done manually using sudo?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-29 1:30 GMT+02:00 Richard Koch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" target="_blank">koch@uoregon.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Folks,<br>
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MacTeX installs TeX in /usr/local/texlive/2016, a location owned by root.<br>
Therefore to administer TeX Live, you need sudo. I am told that many<br>
Linux distributions install in user space, and thus don’t need sudo.<br>
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This also applies to TeX Live Utility, Adam Maxwell’s GUI<br>
interface to tlmgr. This program will list packages without an admin<br>
password, but whenever you ask it to perform a task which will modify<br>
the TeX Distribution, it asks for an admin password.<br>
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Norbert says he’ll look into this, but I see no reason to do so.<br>
Of course you are free to install TeX Live yourself, and then<br>
you can install in user space.<br>
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Dick Koch<br>
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