From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 25 23:08:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01271 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 23:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA01266 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 23:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16354; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 08:08:00 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199607260608.IAA16354@grumble.grondar.za> To: Warner Losh cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which tex Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 08:07:59 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I want to build and install TeX on my FreeBSD current system. > > Looking at the ports area I find the following: > mltex > latex > musixtex > teTeX > tex > latex209 > > Now, I just want the latest TeX, LaTeX, et al for my system. Which > one of these monsters do I want to install? My guess would either be > just teTeX, or latex209 + tex + dvips + mltex + musixtex + ????? I use teTeX, and am very happy with it. It is a "bells-and-whistles" package with everything. > What have others done? How much disk space will I need? Thanks for > any pointers you can give me. It all installs very cleanly in its own directory, and this is about 64MB. It also wants wishx (=tcl/tk/tclX), and I do not know off hand how big that lot is. If you do not need xtexsh under X, you can comment out this requirement in the ports Makefile. Good luck! M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key