[OS X TeX] installing from TeXLive

[Claus Gerhardt]

I don't think so. The easiest way to know your path is

echo $PATH

and

sudo echo $PATH

for the system wide configurations.

Claus


On Nov 17, 2006, at 8:03, Franck Pastor wrote:

> Note that if you have created a ".profile" file in your home  
> directory (bash shell) or a ".tcshrc" file in the same home  
> directory (tcsh shell), it is those files you will have to edit. In  
> that case, it is simpler, as they belong to you.
>
> Le 17-nov.-06 à 07:22, Claus Gerhardt a écrit :
>
>> Manually correct profile and csh.login and enter your new path,  
>> then everything works fine. There is no need to become root to do  
>> it, I used BBEdit and had to enter my password when trying to it  
>> as a normal user. But I could have used any text editor.
>>
>> Claus
>>
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2006, at 3:19, Enrico Franconi wrote:
>>
>>> 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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