Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:50:16 +0000 From: af300wsm@gmail.com To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, af300wsm@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Re: Which latex should I install Message-ID: <0016368e1b111e0c2b046d43f944@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20090626164044.GA31370@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Jun 26, 2009 10:40am, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:27:51PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:21:37AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > > > Is there a FBSD port of TeXLive? > > > > > > No, but it's not necessary. Just go here > > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html>; and download the DVD image. > > > > well.. I'll wait for some kind sole to put a texlive port together. > > Tetex port has been enough for me for some years now. > The thing is that teTeX hasn't been updated in years. It has in fact > been deprecated in favor of TeXLive. This is not a big problem with the > basic TeX engine, because that doesn't change that much. But pdfTeX (a > TeX that generates PDF output instead of DVI) has been evolving > rapidly. And you'll miss out on several years of updates of the macro > packages (like LaTeX and ConTeXt). > Another consideration is that TeXLive contains a much larger choice of > additional packages than teTeX. > So I would advise you to install TeXLive. The latest DVD comes with > FreeBSD binaries. > Look at the mailing list archives for threads called "LaTeX oder teTeX" > in October 2007, and "Installing latest version of LaTeX" in June > 2009. In those threads I've posted some instructions on how to get > TeXLive to work. Installation is pretty easy, but you have to change > login.conf and manpath.conf to use the binaries and manpages. Normally > TeXLive keeps everything under its own tree (/usr/local/texlive), so it > won't mess up the trees /usr/local/{bin,share,...}. Do _not_ tell the > installer to put symbolic links in /usr/local/bin! That way removing > TeXLive is as easy as removing /usr/local/texlive. > Roland Thanks Roland. Looks like TeXLive it is. Andy
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