[OS X TeX] basic etiquette

[Paul Vickers]

PArdon, but my example assumed that mpm was already installed on the  
Roberto's machine. It certainly does install on OS X - the example I  
gave was from my own .bash_history file.

Paul
On 27 Nov 2006, at 13:19, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> 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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