[tex-live] gpg with tlmgr with tl 2016 pretest, etc, on a Mac

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 10:41:44 CEST 2016


On 29 April 2016 at 10:27, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as already written several times, it is not recommended to install TL as
> root in Linux. Thus many years ago I manually created (as root)
> /usr/local/texlive and changed ownership of this directory to me. Can MacTeX
> bi installed by an ordinary user if this additional step is done manually
> using sudo?

Maybe. But we never had any problems with root-owned distribution and
it's been that way for years (or at least I'm not aware of any
problems).

Mojca


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