Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:55 +0000 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1 Message-ID: <AANLkTimyzfTqyemHq2Zf=y%2B%2B6E90yhqn6H0%2BaKz4DFRB@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear folks, Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default tex installation? I look at a Linux project that is very similar to FreeBSD, Slackware and they at least explain why it is not included as default and include tetex 3.0 which is no longer developed. One can build a tetex package for slackware easily through slackbuilds.org. No problem there. On FreeBSD, there are several attempts to address this issue: http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ I have tried Romain's repository, followed the instructions on FreeBSD 8.0 AMD 64, but did not get anywhere, the default tetex(installed by ports) was the only one that worked. I did not try the other binaries on second link provided. Is there a foolproof/idiotproof way of installing TeXLive, even from source, that does not require one to have tetex? I see NetBSD or OpenBSD has TeXLive as a port in their ports, why hasn't FreeBSD followed them? I can see why others[Linux/BSD distributors] have licensing issues, but FreeBSD is not like that at least from what I know. I broke my 8.0 installation, and want to install 8.1 but want to see how it would be easier to install texlive or just be happy with tetex and move on till FreeBSD developers include texlive by default? 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? Regards, Antonio
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