[OS X TeX] Leopard, MacTeX2007 and gv

[Eric van der Oord]

Well, goodbye gv!

Thanks to all

Eric
Le 27 juin 08 à 13:27, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> Le 27 juin 08 à 12:46, Eric van der Oord a écrit :
>
>> G. Wierda's instalI  -- I've just tried -- does not seem adapted to  
>> Leopard.
>
> You're right, i-Installer fails to install gv on Leopard. Status  
> lines yield:
>
> http://www.ntg.nl/macosx-tex/i-packages/gv.ii2/gv.l.bz2 download  
> (255 Bytes) has started (255 Bytes)
> http://www.ntg.nl/macosx-tex/i-packages/gv.ii2/gv.l.bz2 download  
> (255 Bytes) has completed (255 Bytes at 2.0 GB per second)
> Checking (required) dependency set 0 (all should be available).  
> Reason: X11R6 + Xaw3d needs to be installed on your system
> ## Required  file /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dylib is available. Good.
> ## Required  file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.dylib is available. Good.
> Dependency requirements fulfilled.
> Starting trueinstall tasks
> Prepare stage completed
> Unarchive stage failed
>
> And corresponding error message is:
>
> /usr/bin/tar: ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: Cannot open: File  
> exists
>
> I've no idea what that means. Not using gv myself, I can't help.  
> Remember moreover the warning in the i-package Readme:
>
> • NOTE: gv is old and as far as I know not maintained. I had to hack  
> around in the sources to get it to work and I will not be able to  
> provide decent support.
>
> And that was even before Gerben announced end of support for i- 
> Installer.
>
> Bruno Voisin
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