[OS X TeX] basic etiquette

[Victor Ivrii]

On 11/27/06, Paul Vickers <eattheword at googlemail.com> wrote:
> For example:
>
> sudo mpm --install=siunits
>
> Installs the siunits package
>
> Then run
> sudo texhash
>
> and voila, your siunits package is now working.


LOL! First one needs to install mpm (which stays for MikTeX Package
Manager) and could be found via miktex.org at sourceforge.net. The
problem is that it is a source and I am not sure if mac binaries are
anywhere around. Compilation is easy, provided you have devtools
installed (which is the first thing I do when I get any new mac)

HTH


>
> Paul
> On 27 Nov 2006, at 12:59, Roberto Avanzi wrote:
>
> > On 27 Nov 2006, at 13:10, Victor Ivrii wrote:
> >
> >> At this moment GW binaries seem to be slightly off the cutting edge:
> >> pdftex 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 instead of 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 the latest
> >> stable and to keep packages I use up-to-date, I rey upon mpm and
> >> myself rather than any distribution.
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but what is mpm, how do I use it on my mac?
> > Of course I would be delighted to use always cutting edge packages
> > and binaries, because, in fact, I like to break my workflow by
> > using newest stuff with bugs and regressions instead of a safer,
> > stable solution.  That's me.
> >
> >  cheers
> >   Roberto
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