Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:34:07 +0100 From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> To: bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, djuatdelta@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX Message-ID: <86prdhuazk.fsf@nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (bf's message of "Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:38:30 -0700 (PDT)") References: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com> 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!! If you decide to download the huge iso instead, just mount it and install from there. mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/file.iso` /mount-point Good luck:-) Glyn
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