[OS X TeX] Finally we are grown up

[Claus Gerhardt]

try,

http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/getFile.py?fn=/systems/texlive/Images/ 
texlive2005-inst-20051102.iso.zip

Claus


On Nov 19, 2006, at 1:02, Fernando Pereira wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>>
>> (4) Download the compressed TeXLive dmg (~683MB) from CTAN, google  
>> for texlive2005-inst-20051102.iso Unzip the download and mount it.
>
> Thanks for the detailed instructions. Except that (4) above doesn't  
> work. From the US at least, searching for "exlive2005- 
> inst-20051102.iso" brings up a variety of links but none to a .dmg  
> file. Searching around some more, I found a link to a PPC .dmg, but  
> not to an Intel one.
>
> I probably can find the relevant link by searching more. And I've  
> been using Unix since 1979, so I'm pretty comfortable with the  
> command line. But this shows clearly why even the best instructions  
> are not as good as an automated system like i-Installer. Why do we  
> have computers, if not to manage repetitive, finicky bureaucratic  
> chores for us?
>
> -- F
>
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