From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 07:07:37 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 4CEC4106566C for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:07:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD2C8FC08 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,314,1241391600"; d="scan'208";a="99777231" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2009 07:38:23 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 66E935D5E; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:34:07 +0100 (BST) From: Glyn Millington To: bf Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. References: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Liturgical-Date: Optional Memorial: Saint Norbert, bishop, A.D. 2009 Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:34:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (bf's message of "Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:38:30 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <86prdhuazk.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, djuatdelta@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:07:37 -0000 bf writes: >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. > > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done. Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually installing it as free-standing software is not too hard. Get it from here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html I find that the live installation over the internet works very well - the links are there on the same page. Everything is installed in its own directory structure so it is easy to clean out if you need to do so. One useful point - in the main menu TeX Live gives the opportunity for the installer to create symbolic links to its main programs in standard directories. It is so much easier than doing so by hand!! If you decide to download the huge iso instead, just mount it and install from there. mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/file.iso` /mount-point Good luck:-) Glyn