[OS X TeX] Install MacTex outside /usr/local?

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Thu 11th Dec, 2008 at 12:42, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:

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> On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Gorram Freak wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I'd like to install MacTeX on my MacPro at work. However, I can't
>> install in the default location because /usr/local is a symbolic link
>> to a read-only network share.
>> 
>> So, does anyone know a way to install (Mac)TeX in an alternate
>> directory? The only way I've come up with so far is to install tetex
>> via fink or MacPorts.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Arthur G
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> Howdy,
>
> I don't think you can change the install location of MacTeX but I think you 
> can set the location if you install straight TeX Live although I've never 
> tried. You won't have that nice TeX Distribution preference pane but any 
> tetex distribution is way out of date and tetex is no longer supported. I'm 
> sort of surprised that MacPorts hasn't updated their TeX distribution to TeX 
> Live since it has been several years since last updated.

MacPorts does offer TeX Live though not TL 2008 so far as I can tell.

- cfr


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> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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