[OS X TeX] i-Installer and MacOS X 10.4.6 ?

Hervé CHOPLIN choplin at delphi.phys.univ-tours.fr
Mon Jun 26 04:56:37 EDT 2006


I have installed on my iMac (with Intel Core Duo) the new  
distribution of MacTeX with tne new i-Installer (2.78). I have  
ignored the message and i-Installer works fine.


Hervé CHOPLIN
Université François Rabelais - UFR Sciences et Techniques
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Le 24 juin 06 à 19:10, Miriam Belmaker a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I also got my new MacbookPro with 10.4.6. After installing the  
> latest i-installer and ignoring the message.. it works fine.
>
>
> MB
> On Jun 24, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
> On Jun 24, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Josep M. Font wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Got a new MacBookPro with MacOS X 10.4.6 (8I1121), all system  
>> software upgrades applied, downloaded latest i-Installer (2.78,  
>> build 27 May 2006). To my surprise, when I start it in order to  
>> make a fresh TeX installation, a window pops up with the following  
>> intriguing message:
>>
>> "Please upgrade MacOS X: Although i-Installer works on MacOS X  
>> 10.4.4-10.4.6, up- or downgrading MacOS X to another version is  
>> recommended"
>>
>> ???
>>
>> Should I downgrade to 10.4.3 ? Should I be bold and go ahead ?
>>
>> JMaF
>>
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>
> I'm surprised that there has been no answer to your question so  
> far, so I'll jump in with my 2¢.
>
> I would argue strenuously against downgrading your system software  
> simply to accommodate i-Installer. I looked in the macostex- 
> archives and came tentatively to the conclusion that this problem  
> was fixed.
>
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