[tex-live] TeX Live 2008 does not install on FreeBSD

[Yue Wang]

Sorry, I always send mails to the wrong person...

Here is the original message, and I think /etc/libmap.conf might help.



Hi,

TL 08 on FreeBSD 7 and CURRENT are fine.
CURRENT used to have a compilation problem, but it is fixed in the svn
trunk by me.

Maybe because it is built on a new version of BSD,


for now, I suggest you to try to remap the lib versions (in
/etc/libmap.conf) to see whether it works.

Yue Wang

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Conny Andersson <unitex at telia.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am from Sweden and has been a member of TeX Users Group since many years.
> Earlier, when TeX Live come on CDs FreeBSD was not supported, but the DVDs
> from the last couple of years have installed without problems - up to TeX
> Live 2008:
>
> root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # ./install-tl
> TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs failed at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line
> 1042.
> ./tlpkg/installer/lzma/lzmadec.i386-freebsd --help failed (status 256): No
> such file or directory
> Output is:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.7" not found, required by
> "lzmadec.i386-freebsd"
> Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
> Cannot continue with installation.
> Please report to texlive at tug.org.
>
> root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # locate libc.so.7
> root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # (not found)
>
> root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # locate libc.so.
> /lib/libc.so.6
> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6
> /usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libc.so.6
> /usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.4
> /usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.5
>
> Apparently the installer suffers from 'Linuxism'. There is no libc.so.7 in
> FreeBSD 6.4 from FreeBSD Mall of December 24 2008. Is it possible for me to
> do a workaround?
>
> The Tex Live 2007 DVD could be installed without problems, but I want Tex
> Live 2008 to install (TeTeX wich is a port on FreeBSD, is aging). TeX Live
> 2007 does install as can be seen below:
>
> root at alice [/dvd/texlive] # ./install-tl.sh
>
> Welcome to TeX Live installation. (Tue Mar  3 20:39:18 CET 2009)
>
> Initializing collections...
> Counting selected collections... done.
> Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
> Counting selected collections... done.
> Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
> Done initializing collections.
> Initializing system packages... done.
> Counting selected collections... done.
> Calculating disk space requirements for collections...done.
>
> ===================> TeX Live installation procedure <==================
>
> ===> Note: Letters/digits in <angle brackets> indicate menu items <===
> ===>       for commands or configurable options                   <===
>
>    Proposed platform: Intel x86 with FreeBSD
>    <P> override system detection and choose platform
>    <B> binary systems:         1 out of 15
>    <S> Installation scheme (scheme_full)
>        [to customize within installation scheme:
>         <C> standard collections   <L> language collections]
>    82 out of 85, disk space required: 1111249 kB
>    <D> directories:
>      TEXDIR      (main TeX directory):     /usr/local/texlive/2007
>      TEXMFSYSVAR (systemwide config): /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var
>      TEXMFLOCAL  (systemwide styles etc.): /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>      TEXMFHOME   (personal styles etc.):   $HOME/texmf
>    <O> options:
>       [ ] alternate directory for generated fonts ()
>       [ ] create symlinks in standard directories
>       [ ] do not install macro/font doc tree
>       [ ] do not install macro/font source tree
>    <R> do not install files, set up to run off CD or DVD
>    <I> start installation
>    <H> help,  <Q> quit
>
> Enter command: q
>
>
> With the best regards,
> Conny
>
> ----------------
> Conny Andersson
> Lango
> SE-530 10 VEDUM
> SWEDEN
> ----------------
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>  Conny Andersson
> <unitex at telia.com>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>