[OS X TeX] installing texlive

[George Ghio]

On 29/06/2004, at 4:07 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

>
> On 29 Jun 2004, at 3:13 PM, George Ghio wrote:
>>
>> Well I just don't know what is left. Perhaps I should just go back to 
>> OS10.2.7?
>> I have tried everything I can think of.
>> Only one version, is that just 'echo $PATH' ? This gives;
>> <minimal path>
>>
>> Got no idea from this. Do you have OS 10.3, if so what is your path?
>
> I would hazard a guess and say that TeXLive is installing a startup 
> script for a different shell than you are using.
>
> Is there any reason you need TeXLive? If it's not configuring properly 
> then it can be a long, tedious, and complicated process getting 
> everything working.
>
> I would highly, stronger, most definitely recommend Gerben Weirda's 
> TeX distribution. You can get it by following the instructions in the 
> first box here:
> <http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/~will/texstart/>
>
> It's designed to install TeX with a minimum of fuss and will almost 
> certainly work first time. (unless you've been messing with 
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist...)
>
> Good luck
>
> Will
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Well Will It's like this. I live in the bush in central Victoria, 
Australia My download speed is around 2Kb/second. My connection is sus 
at best and a twelve hour + download is... well not likely succeed.  I 
can get access to a broadband connection if  you know where I can get 
the Tex file to put on disk.

George

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