[fptex] Simple way to move the texlive tree

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr
Wed Jun 18 10:29:19 CEST 2003


> Hello, My texlive tree lives in E:\TeXLive and I would like to move it
> to somewhere else as the disk is getting full. Is there any *really
> simple* way to do it (with re-installing everything)?

You can simply ... move it. You will need to adjust your PATH obviously,
and TEX* environment variables.

> I think it can be done by manually editing the config files etc (I'm
> going to try that) but I'm looking for something even simpler. :-)

Look for references to your old place in files under texmf-var/ but
there shouldn't be lots of them.

Fabrice



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