[OS X TeX] installing from TeXLive

[Claus Gerhardt]

Manually correct profile and csh.login and enter your new path, then  
everything works fine. There is no need to become root to do it, I  
used BBEdit and had to enter my password when trying to it as a  
normal user. But I could have used any text editor.

Claus


On Nov 17, 2006, at 3:19, Enrico Franconi wrote:

> Oh, oh. This is bad. The i-installer did modify some of my system  
> files?
> What about all the discussions about the security of modifying the  
> environment.plist?
> Modifying a system-wide profile having a global import seems to me  
> bad.
> Anyway, I will revert as root those files to their original version.
> Question: is there an uninstall option in the i-installer? How can  
> a normal user without cli expertise revert the situation and switch  
> correctly to TeXlive?
> cheers
> --e.
>
> On 16 Nov 2006, at 09:03, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> Enrico,
>>
>> If ~/Library/texmf still works for you without having installed a  
>> symlink of it in ~/ then I am afraid your are still running one of  
>> Gerben's installation. You must rid of Gerben's path first, see below
>>
>>  Your path has to be incorporated in /private /etc/profile (bash
>> shell) and in /private /etc/csh.login (c shell).
>>
>> The modification of the profile would look like (for powerpc)
>>
>> ## TeX modifications start at Fri Nov  3 17:39:47 CET 2006 (must be
>> Gerben)
>> ## Do not remove the previous line
>> if [ `whoami` != "root" ]
>> then
>>    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/texlivesymlink/bin/powerpc-darwin"
>>    export PATH
>> fi
>> ## Do not remove the next line
>> ## TeX modifications end at Fri Nov  3 17:39:47 CET 2006 (must be
>> Gerben)
>>
>>
>> Either you enter your correct path, or you make a symlink to  
>> texlivesymlink of the corresponding tex folder,  in your case 2005  
>> I guess.
>>
>> For those of you who now think that a texlive installation is very  
>> complicated, this "complication" is only due to Gerben's  
>> modification of the profiles in /etc. I guess that without such a  
>> previous modification TeXLive's guidance for setting the path to  
>> the new binaries would have worked.
>>
>> Claus
>>
>>
>> On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:54, Enrico Franconi wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
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