[OS X TeX] Texlive without MacTeX

[Alain Matthes]

Le 12 avr. 07 à 16:56, Ettore Aldrovandi a écrit :

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:51:47PM +0200, Alain Matthes wrote:
>
>> Perhaps my title tl2007 is not good ?
>
>> I know that it is possible to install teXlive on a Mac without
>> MacTeX in the same way that on linux but i would like to know
>> if there are some difficulties ?  There is a problem to use
>> /usr/local/texlive ?
>
> For what is worth, I have tl2007 installed under
> /opt/texlive/2007 with binaries symlinked to /opt/texlive/bin.
> No problems, so far.

Thanks It' interesting to know that there are other possiblities.

  But why binaries are  symlinked ? Is it for editors or viewers ?

Greetings Alain


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