[OS X TeX] installing texlive

[George Ghio]

On 30/06/2004, at 7:18 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

>>
>> On 29/06/2004, at 4:07 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 29 Jun 2004, at 3:13 PM, George Ghio wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well I just don't know what is left. Perhaps I should just go back 
>>>> to
>>>> OS10.2.7?
>>>> I have tried everything I can think of.
>>>> Only one version, is that just 'echo $PATH' ? This gives;
>>>> <minimal path>
>>>>
>>>> Got no idea from this. Do you have OS 10.3, if so what is your path?
>>>
>>> I would hazard a guess and say that TeXLive is installing a startup
>>> script for a different shell than you are using.
>>>
>>> Is there any reason you need TeXLive? If it's not configuring 
>>> properly
>>> then it can be a long, tedious, and complicated process getting
>>> everything working.
>>>
>>> I would highly, stronger, most definitely recommend Gerben Weirda's
>>> TeX distribution. You can get it by following the instructions in the
>>> first box here:
>>> <http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/~will/texstart/>
>>>
>>> It's designed to install TeX with a minimum of fuss and will almost
>>> certainly work first time. (unless you've been messing with
>>> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist...)
>>>
>>> Good luck
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> Well Will It's like this. I live in the bush in central Victoria,
>> Australia My download speed is around 2Kb/second. My connection is sus
>> at best and a twelve hour + download is... well not likely succeed.
>
> The largest chunk in the package is around 20MB I think.
>
>>  I
>> can get access to a broadband connection if  you know where I can get
>> the Tex file to put on disk.
>
> You could buy the shareware OzTeX distribution on CD. It does contain 
> an
> i-Installer distribution as well, but I do not know how recent. Mail
> Andrew and ask.
>
>>
>> George
>>
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Hi Gerben

Well after a long fight I have convinced the iMac to give me 
permissions for the "/usr/local/teTex" directory. This leaves me with a 
Tex installation in this directory.

Next step is to make the path so it can be found by iTexMac or TexShop.

Question; How do I do this? The instructions from the TexLive DVD do 
not work. Error message "texconfig: command not found".

What is the correct way to make the path under OS10.3?

George

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