[OS X TeX] Good Yosemite news

[Richard Seguin]

> On Oct 23, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
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>>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Thomas Käufl <kaeufl at online.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am just installing Yosemite (third try).
>>> 
>>> Am 19. Okt 2014 um 17:08 schrieb Richard Seguin:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Same thing here. I did
>>>> 
>>>>> sudo mv /usr/local/texlive ~
>>>>> 
>>>>> do the install, then
>>>>> 
>>>>> sudo mv ~/texlive /usr/local
>>> 
>>> I also read this suggestion, but did not follow it. So,
>>> it happened, that the installer seemed to stop while
>>> displaying the message "two minutes left".
>>> 
>>> First, I had the impression that the installer has a
>>> bug. Now, I have the log file open and see the files of
>>> the TeX distribution being moved to the places appropriate
>>> in the new system. And this seems to take a lot of time.
>>> 
>>> So, it's reasonable to move TeX to place not belonging
>>> to system directories.
>>> 
>>> Thomas Käufl
>> 
>> When I did the install, the installer seemed to hang up for a while early in the process where the progress bar was stuck at about 5% while saying that there was 19 minutes left (actually, in the end, more than an hour left). After a while it did start moving again, to my great relief, and it did not hang up again near the end, probably because I did move the texlive folder out of the root directory. I had a major OS upgrade fail once many years ago, and since then upgrading has been an anxiety producing activity.
>> 
>> Richard Séguin
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Do you have anything else with lots of files stored in /usr/local?
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

No.

Richard