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

[Adam M. Goldstein]

sudo rm -rf [directory]

Then you have to give your administrator password.

Adam

On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:34 PM, R Martinez wrote:

> 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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