[pstricks] Cleaning Up PSTricks Installation

Michael Sharpe msharpe at ucsd.edu
Mon Jun 14 17:32:10 CEST 2010


On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  I'm upgrading all of PSTricks using Herbert's complete directory
> structure. However, I have two directories where pstricks functions are
> located. For example:
> 
> [rshepard at salmo ~]$ ll /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pst-3d.tex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21651 1999-03-29 16:00
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pst-3d.tex
> [rshepard at salmo ~]$ ll /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pst-3d/pst-3d.tex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1031 1005 10079 2008-03-15 10:02
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pst-3d/pst-3d.tex
> 
>  Obviously, the latter is more current.
> 
>  My question is whether I can remove /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/
> and install all new versions in their individual directories. I believe that
> I can, but I find three files in that directory that appear nowhere else:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1031 1005   4580 2008-07-15 07:37 textures.con
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1031 1005   5923 2009-01-29 14:33 vtex.con
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1031 1005   8610 2008-06-20 15:00 xdvipdfmx.con
> 
> Can I safely remove these?
> 

It's unlikely you will ever need textures.con (Mac only, almost defunct) and vtex is commercial tex software, but xdvipdfmx is the output driver for XeTeX, so there is some reason not to discard it. I'd leave it exactly where it is.

Michael





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