Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:29:21 +0100 From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX Message-ID: <867hzpzupa.fsf@nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <20090606071957.GC2714@slackbox.xs4all.nl> (Roland Smith's message of "Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:19:57 %2B0200") References: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <86prdhuazk.fsf@nowhere.org> <20090606071957.GC2714@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: >> bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com> 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!! > > It is less messy if you just add the path to the TeXLive binaries to the > path element of the default profile in /etc/login.conf: Brilliant!! - that never occurred to me :-) atb Glyn
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