[OS X TeX] Updating Beamer

George Gratzer gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca
Mon Feb 13 17:01:22 EST 2006


I checked, it is 3.01.

O.K., so I download 3.06. How do I install it?

GG

GG

On Feb 13, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Thomas Rike wrote:

>
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:17 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>
>> I see that Beamer is Version 3.06, while my installation (TeX Live  
>> 2005) is version 3.01. So I should upgrade.
>>
>> The easiest would be to reinstall everything. This has the  
>> advantage that everything else is also updated, including the  
>> packages Beamer relies on.
>>
>> But how do I know that Beamer was updated by TUG (meaning, I  
>> suppose, Gerben Wierde)?
>>
>> GG
>
> Dear George,
>
> Here is what Gerben said a few days ago about different versions in  
> different packages.
>
>    On 6 Feb 2006, at 18:34, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
>>  I suspect that without Gerben we will not be able to find an  
>> explanation.
>
>    Probably not. Here is what I can say about it:
>
> My strategy:
> - texmf.gwtex contains stuff that is not in texmf.tetex. This also  
> means it contains dfifferent stuff when you install 2003 (teTeX2)  
> versus 2004-2005 (teTeX3). It even used to be that you had the  
> teTeX beamer (3.01)when you installed 2004-2005 and the gwtex  
> beamer (3.06) when you installed 2003, so 2003 got you a *newer*  
> beamer than 2004-2005.
>
> HTH, Tom Rike
>
>
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