From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 07:33:38 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 E4F30106564A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:33:38 +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 7DCA68FC15 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,314,1241391600"; d="scan'208";a="104868829" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2009 08:33:37 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 426325D5E; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:21 +0100 (BST) From: Glyn Millington To: Roland Smith Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. References: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <86prdhuazk.fsf@nowhere.org> <20090606071957.GC2714@slackbox.xs4all.nl> X-Liturgical-Date: Optional Memorial: Saint Norbert, bishop, A.D. 2009 Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:29:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20090606071957.GC2714@slackbox.xs4all.nl> (Roland Smith's message of "Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:19:57 +0200") Message-ID: <867hzpzupa.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 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 07:33:39 -0000 Roland Smith writes: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: >> 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!! > > 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