[OS X TeX] installing from TeXLive

[Claus Gerhardt]

I am really satisfied myself having discovered that TeXLive offers an  
easy, smooth, and *flexible* tex installation on a Macintosh. Its  
release notes indicate that we could have had it since 2002. MacTeX  
no doubt will offer an installation vehicle of TeXLive for those with  
a command line phobia, but in principle its an out of the box working  
*excellent* tex installation, working for many platforms with a  
transparent and easy configurable set up.

Claus


On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:54, Enrico Franconi wrote:

>
> On 14 Nov 2006, at 18:20, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> Today I downloaded the compressed texlive2005-inst-20051102.iso  
>> dmg from CTAN (683MB) mounted it and installed the full unix  
>> texlive distribution following the installer script.
>>
>> Installation was a easy and very quickly:
>
> This is amazing, it took 10 minutes to install it; and it works!
> After having modified my PATH variable to contain the new texlive  
> binaries, I just run install-tl.sh (keeping all default parameters  
> - I did not change the base path), and texconfig-sys paper a4:  
> everything works fine after. No parameter modified. And I still  
> have my personal texmf in Library/; I did not need to move it in ~/
>
> thanks - now we have a bright future.
> --e.
>
>> Using a bash shell I cded to
>> /Volume/TexLive-2005 issued the command
>>
>> sudo sh install-tl.sh
>>
>> and used the default install with the only exception of installing  
>> tex into
>>
>> /usr/local/texlive2005 instead of /usr/local/texlive/2005
>>
>> Installation went smoothly and took 9 min on my PPC at 2.5GHz(dual).  
>> Then I issued
>>
>> $ sudo bash
>> Password:
>> # PATH=/usr/local/texlive2005/bin/powerpc-darwin:$PATH; export PATH
>> # texconfig-sys paper a4
>>
>> for setting the path and running texconfig.
>>
>> Since I didn't set a symlink, I had to change in TeXShop's  
>> preferences the path to
>> /usr/local/texlive2005/bin/powerpc-darwin/tex
>>
>> and in the path in my shell scripts to
>>
>> set path= ($path  /usr/local/bin  /usr/local/texlive2005/bin/ 
>> powerpc-darwin)
>
>
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