From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 17:49:33 2011 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 00851106564A for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpg@griffin.gnix.co.uk) Received: from griffin.gnix.co.uk (griffin.gnix.co.uk [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459288FC14 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from griffin.gnix.co.uk (jpg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by griffin.gnix.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p05HnUPa019864; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:49:30 GMT Received: (from jpg@localhost) by griffin.gnix.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p05HnUI7020767; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:49:30 GMT Message-Id: <201101051749.p05HnUI7020767@griffin.gnix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110105174256.GA32535@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> from Frank Shute at "Jan 5, 2011 05:42:56 pm" To: Frank Shute Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:49:30 +0000 (GMT) From: jamie@gnix.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port print/teTeX-base failed to 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: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:49:33 -0000 > teTeX is ancient and my advice would be to install TeXLive. It's not > in ports but instructions for installing it can be found on the > forums: > I think TeXLive 2010 has been released and this has binaries for > FreeBSD. You can get this from http://www.tug.org/ and installation > should consist of just running the installer. Tug.org have provided TeXlive binaries for freebsd and installing it is easy but, some other ports do still require TeTeX as a dependency and it's not unsual to have both distributions installed - i do. jamie