[OS X TeX] final tex live 2007

[Dima]

I believe that's appropriate in this topic as well:

I have old gwTex distribution, just install the new gwTex distirbution.
How do I make sure that the old one is gone and the new one is used?
I like the GUI panel for distributions thing do you have to keep
MacTex/liveTex to have it? I currently don't have that installed.

On 2/21/07, Franck Pastor <pastor at fusl.ac.be> wrote:
>
> Le 21-févr.-07 à 15:07, Alain Matthes a écrit :
>
> >
> > Le 20 févr. 07 à 22:11, Richard Koch a écrit :
> >
> >
> >>
> >> If you install using MacTeX, you also need to reconfigure GUI
> >> applications. This time
> >> the path to binaries is /usr/texbin. Actually this is a symbolic
> >> link; the binaries
> >> are still installed where the TeXLive install script puts them.
> >>
> >> For those who have not been following this discussion, let me
> >> explain the data
> >> structure briefly. After you install TeXLive-2007 with MacTeX, you
> >> will find that your
> >> old teTeX-based installation from Gerben remains intact; if you
> >> installed his more
> >> recent gwTeX, that also remains intact. You'll find that you have
> >> a new
> >> control panel named TeX Distributions listing all of your TeX
> >> distributions. For
> >> instance, Gerben's old distribution is listed as
> >> "gwTeX-2003-2005", his new
> >> distribution is "gwTeX" and TeXLive is "TeXLive-2007". The active
> >> distribution will
> >> be selected in the control panel's list. If you make a different
> >> distribution active in the control panel,
> >> then automatically all of your GUI applications will be
> >> reconfigured (because the /usr/texbin
> >> link will be reset), and your PATH and MAN variables will change
> >> appropriately.
> >> So it is easy to return to an old distribution if there are
> >> surprises in the new one.
> >> (I argued bitterly against this data structure until I saw the
> >> light. Now I think it is
> >> fantastic.)
> >
> >
> > thank you for all these explanations but I need a precision. I've
> > an old gwtex distribution
> >  and the experimental based on texlive 2006
> > the TeX's control panel give the choice between gw 2003-2005 and gw
> > ( texlive 2006)
> >
> > /usr/texbin is used in Texshop
> >
> > But it is possible to erase the old distribution because the number
> > of files is too
> >  big and it's difficult to know who makes what ?
>
> http://www.tug.org/~koch/Uninstalling.html
>
> In short : sudo rm-r /usr/local/tetex
>
> However, I would keep the old tetex safe for a while, just in case.
> Note anyway that I use both new distributions (the raw TeXLive 2007
> from MacTeX, and gwTeX), on two different machines, and for a while I
> have had no problems with any of them.
>
> >
> > in /usr/local/ i have a gwtex folder and a tetex folder
> >
> > examples :
> > $ locate epstopdf
> > /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/epstopdf
> > /usr/local/gwTeX/man/man1/epstopdf.1
> > /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/doc/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf.pdf
> > /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/doc/man/man1/epstopdf.1
> > /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/scripts/tetex/epstopdf.pl
> > /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf.sty
> > /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/epstopdf
> > /usr/local/teTeX/man/man1/epstopdf.1
> > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/
> > epstopdf.html
> > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf.sty
> >
> > and there is an epstopdf in texshop ( i think that it's very strange )
> >
> > How to to install TeXlive 2007 in my situation ?
> > because i don't  want a third distribution
>
> Il gwTeX is already installed, why not keeping it? It is pretty
> efficient and stable (and still maintained! It's only mail support
> which is discarded).
>
> Franck Pastor
>
>
>
>
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