From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 17:50:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A682B106564A for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0910.google.com (an-out-0910.google.com [209.85.132.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4368FC0C for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c35so781240anc.13 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:50:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090626164044.GA31370@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Received: by 10.101.71.3 with SMTP id y3mr1210563ank.4.1246038616573; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <0016368e1b111e0c2b046d43f944@google.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:50:16 +0000 From: af300wsm@gmail.com To: Roland Smith , af300wsm@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Re: Which latex should I install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:50:17 -0000 On Jun 26, 2009 10:40am, Roland Smith 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