Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:40:44 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: af300wsm@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Which latex should I install Message-ID: <20090626164044.GA31370@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090626142751.GA21055@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <b6c05a470906260541v275b3cccrd2a46f19e333c291@mail.gmail.com> <001e680f0e34832979046d404faf@google.com> <b6c05a470906260632h7717a5f1md7f14136b538071@mail.gmail.com> <20090626135823.GA15537@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <b6c05a470906260721o679275aeo42878d7a9e2ba055@mail.gmail.com> <20090626142751.GA21055@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? > >=20 > > No, but it's not necessary. Just go here > > <http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html>; and download the DVD image. >=20 > 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. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpE+gwACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUbAACfRdOj3J/ZgBhYXbLxOitS8GZ2 kBUAnRC95bRgdH79QFtFaHDKuHEpXi7i =Z9ak -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--
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