[OS X TeX] TeX i-package: Having trouble installing 2005

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Date: 2005/03/03 Thu AM 09:38:39 EST
> To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeX i-package: Having trouble installing 2005
> 
> 
> Am 03.03.2005 um 15:04 schrieb <stephenmoye at cox.net>:
> 
> > Later -- I tried the expert installation and got the same error. The 
> > log file is
> > not very illuminating -- it can't find texconfig and bails out.
> 
> Could you check two things?
> 
> What is in Terminal the output of "echo $PATH"?

/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-
apple-darwin-current

> What is in Terminal the output of "which texconfig"?

/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texconfig
> 
> Didn't you mention once Fink? Having both teTeX distributions? Maybe 
> you should check ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist too ... which is easy in 
> Terminal: open ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist

17:45 ~: open ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
2005-03-03 17:48:13.213 open[378] No such file: /Users/smoye/.MacOSX/
environment.plist


> If you see in that file or in the output of the two commands "/sw/bin" 
> then you should make this path component disappear, or be last. The 
> best check for success of this would be to log out and log in again and 
> check the two commands in Terminal again.
> 
> Do you see in the folder/directory with the i-Packages quite recent 
> dates? Could you open the tex.ii2 bundle and see whether the files 
> inside are quite recent? The i-Installer lets you alone for a long time 
> with the old stuff. When you press Install/Configure then for some 
> packages a window pops up that allows to Ignore  Update  Cancel  TL2004 

17:52 tex.ii2: ll
total 225672
drwxr-xr-x  41 smoye  staff      1394  3 Mar 08:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 smoye  staff       476  9 Oct 07:01 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff      2153  9 Oct 06:31 convert.pe
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      4218 14 Feb 05:53 fmtutil.cnf.tl2003
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      4884 14 Feb 05:53 fmtutil.cnf.tl2004
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     23447  1 Nov 19:32 fmtutil.tl2003
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     24349  6 Nov 12:19 fmtutil.tl2004
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      3787 27 Apr  2004 language.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     12519  9 Oct 06:31 lmcreatefamilies.pe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff      6085 16 Jan 21:57 mk4ht
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff      5609 27 Apr  2004 settexpath
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    138576  1 Nov 19:27 tex.11.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    146184  1 Nov 19:27 tex.12.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    566209  2 Mar 18:54 tex.13.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    131200  2 Mar 18:54 tex.14.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    548475  2 Mar 18:54 tex.15.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff   6077010  2 Mar 18:56 tex.16.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    829852 14 Feb 05:36 tex.17.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff  28561019 14 Feb 05:42 tex.18.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff   5044951 14 Feb 05:43 tex.19.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff  50562068 14 Feb 05:52 tex.20.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    575444  2 Mar 18:28 tex.23.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    131023  2 Mar 18:28 tex.24.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    569565  2 Mar 18:28 tex.25.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff   6014904  2 Mar 18:30 tex.26.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff  14451641  2 Mar 18:27 tex.4.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff    652297  2 Mar 18:27 tex.9.tar.bz2
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     59035 14 Feb 05:53 tex.configure
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff     55090  2 Mar 18:24 tex.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff     55090  2 Mar 18:24 tex.plist.new
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff       186  2 Mar 18:24 tex.plist.sig
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff      9605 14 Feb 05:34 tex.prepare
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff      6707  2 Mar 18:42 tex.remove
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff     47351  2 Mar 18:24 tex.rtf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     16722  2 Mar 18:24 tex.selector
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      2040 14 Feb 05:33 tex.sharedscript.pm
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      6035 27 Apr  2004 tex4ht.env.in
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     54328  1 Nov 19:32 texconfig.tl2003
-rwxr-xr-x   1 smoye  staff     55043  6 Nov 12:19 texconfig.tl2004
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      3392  1 Nov 19:32 texmf.cnf.gwtex.tl2003
-rw-r--r--   1 smoye  staff      3443  2 Mar 18:30 texmf.cnf.gwtex.tl2004
17:52 tex.ii2: 



>   TL2005 -- or such. This "Update" is an indication that i-Installer has 
> found a newer i-Package on the net, if you press Ignore you're 
> re-installing the old stuff again.

> Who installed TL2005 first? Was it you with the same account as now? Or 
> did you do it as admin or such? If these two identities are different, 
> then i-Installer fails in fetching the new components of this bundle 
> from the net, other things might fail too ... and some things, that are 
> done as superuser, might get lost/removed.

The only account I access is 'smoye'.

A puzzle. Thanks for your help!

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