From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 27 07:17:32 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 E7EF61065673 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:17:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reichp@austin.rr.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3C98FC16 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:17:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reichp@austin.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.5.229] (really [72.177.34.227]) by hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090627060022355.NYD4450@hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com> for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:00:22 +0000 From: Patrick Reich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090626202632.68F1C10656B7@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090626202632.68F1C10656B7@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:00:21 -0500 Message-Id: <1246082421.25793.11.camel@acheron.bluewinds.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:17:33 -0000 On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 20:26 +0000, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Message: 12 > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:40:44 +0200 > From: Roland Smith > Subject: Re: Re: Which latex should I install > To: af300wsm@gmail.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20090626164044.GA31370@slackbox.xs4all.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 > > > 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. One thing to add here is that the ports tree remains tied to teTeX. If you install TexLive (either from DVD or Romain's) and then install a port like texmacs, lyx, texmaker, or auctex to edit your files, you'll pull in teTeX as a dependency. You end up with both teTeX and TeXLive installed. If someone knows how to avoid the duplicity, please do chime in - I'm not a fan of having both. I require TeXLive for the mathematics typesetting I do. Sincerely, Pat