[tex-live] Installing TeX live on MacOS X

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 13:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Il 26/06/2011 1.24, Norbert Preining ha scritto:
>>
>> That is *really* strange ...and I am a hard time reproducing it, since
>> as you said, on Linux it is working.
>
> Some day before I tried the -force...' option, there was an Apple upgrade
> from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8, if I remember correctly...

> (Just for completeness, I received private mail from someone who tried
> '-force-platform x86_64-darwin' 10 days ago, and it worked and now he can't
> try because several network problems...)

She just tried again (with 10.6.8) and it seems to work fine.

With GUI:
> ./install-tl -force-platform x86_64-darwin -repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest -gui
Overriding platform to x86_64-darwin
Installing TeX Live 2011 from: http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest
Platform: x86_64-darwin => 'x86_64 with MacOSX/Darwin'
Distribution: net  (downloading)
Using URL: http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest

And in command line:

> ./install-tl -force-platform x86_64-darwin -repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest -v
Overriding platform to x86_64-darwin
D:Using shipped ./tlpkg/installer/wget/wget.x86_64-darwin for wget (tested).
D:Using shipped ./tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.x86_64-darwin for xzdec (tested).
D:Using system xz (not tested).
Installing TeX Live 2011 from: http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest
Platform: x86_64-darwin => 'x86_64 with MacOSX/Darwin'
Distribution: net  (downloading)
Using URL: http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest

Mojca