Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:00:21 -0500 From: Patrick Reich <reichp@austin.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which latex should I install Message-ID: <1246082421.25793.11.camel@acheron.bluewinds.org> In-Reply-To: <20090626202632.68F1C10656B7@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090626202632.68F1C10656B7@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 20:26 +0000, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Message: 12 > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:40:44 +0200 > From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> > Subject: Re: Re: Which latex should I install > To: af300wsm@gmail.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20090626164044.GA31370@slackbox.xs4all.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:27:51PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:21:37AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > > > Is there a FBSD port of TeXLive? > > > > > > No, but it's not necessary. Just go here > > > <http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html>; and download the DVD > image. > > > > well.. I'll wait for some kind sole to put a texlive port together. > > Tetex port has been enough for me for some years now. > > The thing is that teTeX hasn't been updated in years. It has in fact > been deprecated in favor of TeXLive. This is not a big problem with > the > basic TeX engine, because that doesn't change that much. But pdfTeX (a > TeX that generates PDF output instead of DVI) has been evolving > rapidly. And you'll miss out on several years of updates of the macro > packages (like LaTeX and ConTeXt). > > Another consideration is that TeXLive contains a much larger choice of > additional packages than teTeX. > > So I would advise you to install TeXLive. The latest DVD comes with > FreeBSD binaries. > > Look at the mailing list archives for threads called "LaTeX oder > teTeX" > in October 2007, and "Installing latest version of LaTeX" in June > 2009. In those threads I've posted some instructions on how to get > TeXLive to work. Installation is pretty easy, but you have to change > login.conf and manpath.conf to use the binaries and manpages. Normally > TeXLive keeps everything under its own tree (/usr/local/texlive), so > it > won't mess up the trees /usr/local/{bin,share,...}. Do _not_ tell the > installer to put symbolic links in /usr/local/bin! That way removing > TeXLive is as easy as removing /usr/local/texlive. One thing to add here is that the ports tree remains tied to teTeX. If you install TexLive (either from DVD or Romain's) and then install a port like texmacs, lyx, texmaker, or auctex to edit your files, you'll pull in teTeX as a dependency. You end up with both teTeX and TeXLive installed. If someone knows how to avoid the duplicity, please do chime in - I'm not a fan of having both. I require TeXLive for the mathematics typesetting I do. Sincerely, Pat
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