[OS X TeX] TeXLive-install-recipe download

Claus Gerhardt gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de
Sun Nov 19 13:31:40 EST 2006


As a further test I switched from TeXLive (TUG) to a tetex  
installation on a second hard disk. Worked fine.

The corresponding switch is

set sourceName to "/Volumes/Gauss/usr/local/tetex/bin/powerpc-apple- 
darwin-current"

Gauss is my second internal hard disk.

Claus


On Nov 19, 2006, at 19:05, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Since I still have Gerben's old tetex installation I tried to  
> switch from TeXLive (TUG) to tetex which worked smoothly,  
> typesetting a document revealed that I indeed used Gerben's old  
> installation. Switching back worked as simply.
>
> An affair of a few seconds.
>
> Here is the definition for switching to tetex (for powerpc)
>
> set sourceName to "/usr/local/tetex/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current"
>
> Notice that you shouldn't try to switch from TeXLive (TUG) to  
> TeXLive (Gerben) because of the renaming of  Gerben's TeXLive  
> folder; of course one could try to use the changed name
>
> gwTeXLive
>
> but I don't know, if this would work, and I don't have Gerben's  
> TeXLive installed anymore for testing.
>
> Claus
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