[OS X TeX] TeX on Leopard

[George Gratzer]

I did an Erase and Install and then 10.5 recovered the data from a  
10.4 clone. Surprise. The TeX installation was all recovered.

GG

On Oct 26, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 26 oct. 07 à 20:04, Jean-Claude DE SOZA a écrit :
>
>> I have installed Leopard with "Archive and Install" and my folders  
>> TeXShop and texmf in my Library were preserved; Image-Magick,  
>> freetype, png, tiff and jpeg libraries were installed from sources  
>> without any problem but you can install all this stuff with the  
>> MacTeX package from Richard Koch.
>
> Just installed Leopard (received about 10 hours ago) with "Archive &  
> Install". Still have to put back all the additional software (TeX,  
> Mathematica, Firefox, Office, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc.) in place  
> again, but it seems there is much less work to do than with previous  
> versions of OS X, if any: IIRC correctly, on an "Archive & install",  
> with previous versions much of the stuff in /Library was put aside  
> in /Previous Systems, and you had to put back all the required  
> pieces (plugins, additions in Application Support, etc.) in place  
> one by one; now it seems all the work has been done by the installer  
> already. (I still have to check this more carefully.) Even my  
> QuickTime Pro registration has been moved to the new setup (whereas  
> previously I had to reenter the registration number by hand), and my  
> MPEG2 additional Codec has been moved too.
>
> On the TeX side: some bits have been moved, but not all:
>
> - All the invisible stuff in /usr/local/ etc. remains invisible and  
> has been moved to "/Previous Systems.localized/2007-10-26_1342/usr/ 
> local/" etc. (the date changes on each machine), but the shortcuts  
> to /usr/local/texlive and /usr/local/gwTeX which I had put in the  
> sidebar of Finder's windows point to the new location.
>
> - /Library/TeX/ remains in place and works, but not the symlinks  
> inside it.
>
> - Fonts installed in /Library/Fonts/ (such as the Latin Modern fonts  
> and, for gwTeX, the TeX Gyre fonts) remain in place and work.
>
> - The symlink /usr/texbin/ has vanished.
>
> - The TeX Distribution system pref displays no available distribution.
>
> Accordingly it's certainly better to reinstall the whole of MacTeX  
> (and gwTeX with i-Installer for those using it), and then to locate  
> in "/Previous Systems/" all the possible local additions to texmf- 
> local (MacTeX) or texmf.pkgs (gwTeX) and put them back in place.
>
> However, there is something I just noticed and which probably won't  
> work any longer: MacTeX and gwTeX used to customize /usr/share/misc/ 
> man.conf upon install, so that the man pages for the various TeX  
> utilities were seen. With Leopard this file seems to have moved  
> (again!), to /etc/man.conf.
>
> That's it for now. I still haven't really used and installed TeX on  
> Leopard, and I won't have the opportunity to go back to my Mac to  
> try before the end of this weekend probably.
>
> Bruno Voisin
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