[OS X TeX] problem with texdoc

[Alain Matthes]

Le 27 déc. 2010 à 18:33, Peter Dyballa a écrit :

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> Am 27.12.2010 um 18:26 schrieb Alain Matthes:
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>> What are the  differences between :
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>> updmap-sys and
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> The first command is nonsense, when you are invoking it – because it's not you who owns the TeX installation(s). As user root, the owner of the TeX installation(s), you are allowed to it this way.
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>> sudo updmap-sys ?
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> With sudo you gain temporarily elevated privileges and can run commands as user root.
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>>> If that folder structure wasn't already created by then it might get created with root as owner.
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>> If the folder was created by root, how I can use it ?
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> After a
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> 	sudo chown -R ego <the path to the root of the root problems>
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> quite normally.
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Yes I agree with you but I think very strange that root creates a folder inside my library with 
elevated privileges. Why in this case, this folder is not inside 
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local or something like that ?

Alain Matthes