From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 19:51:56 2010 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 CF5F4106564A for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735948FC1A for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe15 with SMTP id 15so5404935wwe.31 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:51:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=exeYBYMjQXQkoqdGDEwleNYA/uc5lzjjJYRONuY+VoY=; b=p5sEWL+jZ21lUPFIIB0k2Kt1jfmzReoYaarcWdGcamuFEGivWBesXo3P0NRVmuJil/ R7PTOQzbAIcYPHOMiz33KajeT+GM2JxzSy8aSY+5jq2igxBdyACUMLuwsVxtf2vFCSt4 cY35hNjGv+W4IW4wLEenbSH5gmejxDn+v8LC0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=fOq7y7qGgZXvhZK9gx1/VxQuJb7un8jatAN1jCmcjtaXLQEMHLmtIzA3NC9bziCmip 0UA1JSLDu5YqJWp/UtemLQKisU828XPazdv/RpHegwYl9I1M7IIME52eVZiPRicEkcL1 8i2XvlddPK1lfymc5kNKPbMbKj3PHhsyRmLcU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.173.2 with SMTP id u2mr5093144wel.56.1280001115064; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.165.140 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:55 +0000 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1 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: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:56 -0000 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