[OS X TeX] How to safely discard and old distribution

[R Martinez]

Hi,

I want to remove Mactex 2007. I followed the suggestion below and used the command  rm -r 2007. But all I got was a litany of denied permissions and the directory was not removed.

I use a MacBookPro, Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, MacOS 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard)

Suggestions?

TIA

Raul

On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Luis Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I have been using mactex 2009 very successfully for about a year, and have just installed mactex 2010, which so far appears to be working great. My TeX distribution preference pane now has 4 options, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2010-64 bit (the one I am using currently).
>> 
>> It is time for me to erase mactex 2008, which I have kept but not used since I installed mactex 2009, and I don't feel any need to keep on my hard drive any longer.
>> Can I can just erase /usr/local/texlive/2008 or is there a different proper procedure for doing this?
> 
> Just go to /usr/local/texlive and remove "2008" folder. Methink you
> can remove "2009" as well
> 
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Luis Sequeira
>> 
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