From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 2 18:54:45 2010 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 F249E1065670 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827F68FC15 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so4367291wyj.13 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZTT23TaNgFvmzMAw+b81h00XFNdyt/9Kba6NmWi4FEs=; b=oKv5E3XlqtVw7721iPR85K+lAPs7Mb0jqTKcOjlqG1DbWDpmLDQGDmTgdyk+oBbxcA jGJBEvBHgAtr+DxQt61YuzwoM7gkvL8GeuaDTIfJy5f7J0TjFMryjR2MEJHIXn2Gtmwh vlJx+gIuAKp3Wo/CFFzcB0dkyC9mwXAHgSOsM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=iAPLH8313HFWUkb60gnmTZuxoZAglp6c5WvsgtCVfYeC7xMbrqOwebdszY8ehKhIcU O/LTcfPrDTHymy+xD96nSfOs7T3UC1m887869FiZUF6zonkhAzn6xwYQciZlfSp8GytH XS5O6blQ5i13NVdJ1TEcHjD87H5jkrK99L144= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.35.80 with SMTP id t58mr3074566wea.32.1280775284324; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.168.207 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:54:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201007251607.o6PG6xaB078142@anthesphoria.net> References: <201007251607.o6PG6xaB078142@anthesphoria.net> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:54:43 +0000 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: =?ISO-8859-2?B?Tmlrb2xhIExl6Gnm?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1 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: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:54:46 -0000 Nikola, Sorry to ask, but you mention that the new TeXLive 2010 will be released this summer. Do you know *when exactly* it will be released? I am also hoping that if use either the pretest one, or the official release, that *it*(The install procedure) also setup the paths, otherwise one has to do this manually :( I have an install CD for TeXLive 2009 and it does not have the needed binaries, and I know I can find them in one of your sites, but the process still looks intimidating :( BTW, it would be a blessing, if some kind soul out there, builds packages (texlive-20XY-amd64.tbz or texlive-20XY-i386) that does everything automagically :), but I know that is asking for too much :( The ports system by Romain Tartarian looked nice, but it is *not an official* port and if one takes the ports method, the teteX 3.0 gets installed (it is not bad, but quite old :( and no updates to fix security issues ) The binaries that you provide one still has to do a great deal of work, if one could script it? unless of course waiting for TeXLive 2010 does all of this for us(including setting the path set path=3D/usr/local/texlive20XY/bin automagically :) I don't know what to do, since Roland, yourself and Anh provided nice responses. I originally had FreeBSD 6.X on one of my machines with TeTeX , kile, and it was working beautifully but then a hard drive failure put me out of business :( I guess I should be patient, I see that time is ticking and with patience one can get more things done. Regards, Antonio On 7/25/10, Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:55 +0000 > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > [...] >> Don't want to add insult to injury or offend anyone, I just want to >> see how installing texlive on FreeBSD can be made easier? > > TeX Live 2010 will support FreeBSD (i386 and amd64). It will work out > of the box for FreeBSD 7 and 8. The TL development tree is frozen now > and the release will be out during summer. > > If you can't wait, you can use TeX Live 2010 pretest, it's pretty stable > and most likely identical to the release: > > http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html > > If you need binaries for FreeBSD<=3D6, please visit these pages: > > http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-Devel/bin-r19416/ > > (r19416 is TL2010 build). > > A reply to all people that wrote about how big TL is: TeX Live is a > _distribution_, not a single piece of software. It has its own package > manager, tlpkg. You can use it to remove anything you don't need after > install. The TL installer supports installing various "schemes". If you > need a minimal TeX, you can choose scheme "minimal", it's actually much > smaller than teTeX. > > Please read TL Guide, it's very useful and can answer all your > questions: > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/ > > Best wishes, > -- > Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 =3D =D0=9D=D0=B8=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=9B=D0= =B5=D1=87=D0=B8=D1=9B > fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >