[OS X TeX] installing from TeXLive

[Enrico Franconi]

Oh, oh. This is bad. The i-installer did modify some of my system files?
What about all the discussions about the security of modifying the  
environment.plist?
Modifying a system-wide profile having a global import seems to me bad.
Anyway, I will revert as root those files to their original version.
Question: is there an uninstall option in the i-installer? How can a  
normal user without cli expertise revert the situation and switch  
correctly to TeXlive?
cheers
--e.

On 16 Nov 2006, at 09:03, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Enrico,
>
> If ~/Library/texmf still works for you without having installed a  
> symlink of it in ~/ then I am afraid your are still running one of  
> Gerben's installation. You must rid of Gerben's path first, see below
>
>  Your path has to be incorporated in /private /etc/profile (bash
> shell) and in /private /etc/csh.login (c shell).
>
> The modification of the profile would look like (for powerpc)
>
> ## TeX modifications start at Fri Nov  3 17:39:47 CET 2006 (must be
> Gerben)
> ## Do not remove the previous line
> if [ `whoami` != "root" ]
> then
>    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/texlivesymlink/bin/powerpc-darwin"
>    export PATH
> fi
> ## Do not remove the next line
> ## TeX modifications end at Fri Nov  3 17:39:47 CET 2006 (must be
> Gerben)
>
>
> Either you enter your correct path, or you make a symlink to  
> texlivesymlink of the corresponding tex folder,  in your case 2005  
> I guess.
>
> For those of you who now think that a texlive installation is very  
> complicated, this "complication" is only due to Gerben's  
> modification of the profiles in /etc. I guess that without such a  
> previous modification TeXLive's guidance for setting the path to  
> the new binaries would have worked.
>
> Claus
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:54, Enrico Franconi wrote:
>
>> This is amazing, it took 10 minutes to install it; and it works!
>> After having modified my PATH variable to contain the new texlive  
>> binaries, I just run install-tl.sh (keeping all default parameters  
>> - I did not change the base path), and texconfig-sys paper a4:  
>> everything works fine after. No parameter modified. And I still  
>> have my personal texmf in Library/; I did not need to move it in ~/
>>
>> thanks - now we have a bright future.
>> --e.
>
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