[OS X TeX] TeX on Yosemite

[Richard Seguin]

What exactly do these two Unix commands do? I’m guessing the “mv” might mean move, but it’s not clear where things are moved to.

mv /usr/local/texlive ~

mv ~/texlive /usr/local

Also, there is a space in the first command between “/texlive" and “~", and there is a space in the middle of the second command, between “/texlive" and “/usr". Are these two spaces supposed to be there?

Richard Séguin


On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> The web page I just sent this mailing list warns that if you have TeX installed on an earlier
> system and you update it to Yosemite, there will be a long delay at the
> very end of installation.
> 
> I just got a note from Ross Moore with an extremely helpful work-around.
> 
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
> 
> From Ross Moore:
> 
> A colleague tells me that the way to update to Yosemite, with
> one or more TeX installations installed, is to first
> 
> mv /usr/local/texlive ~
> 
> do the install, then 
> 
> mv ~/texlive /usr/local
> 
> This avoids the installer archiving then re-installing that
> hierarchy *file-by-file*.
> 
> 
> This kind of approach may be useful with other subdirectories
> of  /usr/local  as well.
> 
> 
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