[tex-live] Request for testers on Mac OS X 10.5-10.6

[Enrico Gregorio]

> On 20 Apr 2017, at 10:27, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 20 April 2017 at 10:12, Enrico Gregorio wrote:
>>> On 19 Apr 2017, at 15:19, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I would be grateful if people who are still using the ancient Mac
>>> boxes could help testing TeX Live pretest 2017, in particular those
>>> still running 10.5 (ppc, i386).
>>> 
>>> https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
>>> 
>>> Mojca
>> 
>> I tried yesterday night: I downloaded MacTeX and installed it
>> on a MacMini (Intel) running 10.5. Only x386_64 binaries were
>> installed, not universal-darwin.
> 
> Do you mean i386 or x86_64?

Sorry, memory betrayed me: x86_64


> There's no x386_64 and universal-darwin no longer exists. MacTeX (dmg
> installer) no longer supports anything below 10.10.
> 
> You can try:
> 
> wget http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
> tar xvzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
> cd install-tl<complete_the_rest>
> ./install-tl -repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest/

That’s what I’m going to try in the weekend.

Ciao
Enrico