[OS X TeX] TeXLive-install-recipe download

[Claus Gerhardt]

On my second hard disk I still have Gerben's TeXLive installed. Thus,  
I tried to rename it first to gwTeXLive and found that I had to do it  
from the shell or through an Applescript, see the Applescript below,  
which you would also have to use when trying to rename TeXLive in / 
usr/local of your boot volume.

Switching then from TeXLive (TUG) to gwTeXLive worked flawlessly.  
Also texdoc gave the documents in gwTeXLive.

I shall also add the renaming script to my download though of course  
copying and saving it in Script Editor shouldn't be a problem.

Claus



-- Applescript

-- Claus Gerhardt

(*This script renames files or directories with adminstrator priviliges.

Notice that the administrator privileges will be valid for a few  
seconds after you entered your password, so don't play around with  
the script, it won't ask for your password again in those circumstances.
*)

set newname to "gwTeXLive"

set dirName to "/usr/local"

set shellScript to "cd " & dirName & ";"
set shellScript to shellScript & "mv TeXLive" & " " & newname

do shell script shellScript with administrator privileges

-- End of script



On Nov 19, 2006, at 19:31, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> 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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