[OS X TeX] Re: End of i-Installer

[Alan Litchfield]

I have only used the unix installation with TeXShop on the Mac, plus  
other editors on linux and FreeBSD.

I have enjoyed using the TeXLive installation for about the last four  
years. It is very easy to set up and if you perform a full install,  
pretty much every package you might need is installed. Any others are  
normally available on CTAN or one of its many mirrors (for example,  
the one that a colleague and I maintain at elena.aut.ac.nz)

The additional advantage is that I have installed TeXLive on my  
WinPC, the Mac at work, etc. Our university has also included TeXLive  
as a standard part of the WinPC disk image (a few thousand PCs, I  
think).

I am also pleased to support the development of TeXLive and  
associated systems through my membership of TUG, which means I get an  
updated DVD and CD set each year.

It has always been a doddle to install and any environment variables  
are easy to set up, depending on the OS of course.

Cheers
Alan


On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Unfortunately I don't have a TeXLive DVD nor a fast internet  
> connection (at the moment) to download the compressed files from  
> CTAN to burn my own DVD, thus I would like to ask those of you who  
> either have the DVD or can burn one quickly to install the unix  
> version of TeXLive:
>
> One only needs the bash shell, which is the default shell of the  
> newer OS X anyway, or one can easily switch to it, then read the  
> installation instructions and use the full install.
>
> TeX will be installed in .../texlive/2005/, i.e., only your old  
> binaries will be overwritten. The risks will be minimal - I don't  
> see any.
>
> Claus
>
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 19:26, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> TeXlive offers an overview and installation guide which can be  
>> downloaded as a pdf file and from which can be learnt that the  
>> binaries will be automatically installed according the architecture.
>>
>> The texconfig script is also straightforward
>>
>> texconfig paper a4(letter)
>>
>> I don't see any major hurdles.
>>
>> Claus
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2006, at 19:04, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 12.11.2006 um 02:05 schrieb Richard Koch:
>>>
>>>> This afternoon I discovered that there is a very straightforward  
>>>> script to
>>>> install the 2005 version of the distribution.
>>>
>>> It's not only the (La)TeX packages: there are also binaries  
>>> needed. Particularly pdfTeX is still developing. The TeX Live CDs  
>>> or DVDs contain the binaries, too, but someone had to make them,  
>>> presumingly Gerben. Who will be providing them in the future? For  
>>> intel and for PPC based Macs.
>>>
>>> Mpm, the MiKTeX Package Manager, carries in its source most  
>>> "utilities" it needs (libmiktex-md5, libmiktex-popt, libmiktex- 
>>> zlib, libmiktex-bz2, libmiktex-expat, libmiktex-mspack), so it's  
>>> easy to compile, and to install. This seems to be an easy means  
>>> to update particular (La)TeX packages. I do not have much  
>>> experience with it (microtype), but I hope it makes updating  
>>> easier, not having to download every time hundred MB large chunks.
>>>
>>> And mpm also installs binary packages.
>>>
>>> Could be a good way is to update the basics from TeX Live CDs or  
>>> DVD with this "very straightforward script" and then leave the  
>>> remainder to mpm ...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>>   Pete
>>>
>>>   It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.
>>>                     -- Garfield
>>>
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