[OS X TeX] Where to get MacTeX-2013?
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri Oct 9 19:33:21 CEST 2015
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. These days, more than ever, it seems as if everybody is looking only after number 1 and this old "anarcho-syndicalist" finds it utmost depressing. So, whether or not I will be able to avoid ditching the new old machine, this mess I got myself into will have been worth it. And, believe it or not, I really mean it.
>
> 2. I installed MacTex 2013 on the new old without any problem. But then Yosemite barfed something about security when I double clicked on a .tex file and would not open it. I hate Yosemite. But I had TeXShop already installed and it was able to open the file. And then of course I ran into the dreaded "Can't write to file ..." But this time, I had kept Voisin's instructions:
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>> In the terminal, enter
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>> sudo nano /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
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>> Enter Password
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>> Use ctrl-v repeatedly to go down to
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>> openout_any = p
>> openin_any = a
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>> cursor to the immediate right of p,
>> hit delete which will move the cursor back and delete p
>> hit r
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>> hit ctrl-x
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>> Terminal will ask you if you want to save and what file name, just hit Y to save and hit enter when it asks the filename
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> So, I proceeded:
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> I entered sudo nano ...
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> Terminal asked me for my password and then I got the screen for Nano but with no text.
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> As far as I recall, last time, the file was open and I just kept using ctrl-v etc etc.
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> So, what has changed?
>
> Hopeful regards
> --schremmer
>
> @Schulz: I am pretty sure that I never "added `updated' packages to [my] personal tree (~/Library/texmf)" if only because I would not know how to do it. And, as I said earlier, everything works on a pre Mid 2011 mac mini under snow leopard so I was not about to do *any*thing. At this point, it is just a curiosity because either it works once the openout has been edited or I dump the Mid 2011 mac mini and with it, with glee and great relief, Yosemite.
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> I tried to attach a minimal example to this but the email bounced. I guess it was not that minimal. So I took it out and will send it to you privately.
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>
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>>> On 09 Oct 2015, at 08:18, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Since I cannot compile with MacTeX-2015 under Yosemite files which compile just fine with MacTeX-2013 under Snow Leopard, my last attempt before I ditch Yosemite and the Mid 2011 Mac Mini it is on was to try to install MacTeX-2013 but I could not find it. Does it still exist somewhere?
>>>
>>> (I found TeX Live 2013 but have no idea how to install it.)
>>>
>>> Hopeful regards.
>>> --schremmer
Howdy,
It should be
sudo nano /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
since the texmf folder was eliminated and all that information was placed in texmf-dist. Also, note that it should be 2015 instead of 2011.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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