[OS X TeX] Query about package installation (TeX Live Utility)

[Rob Hunt]

On 3 Oct 2010, at 22:36, Michael Sharpe wrote:

> On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
> 
>> It's true that you don't need to change the capitalization once you copy the file into your personal area, because kpathsea uses file system searches there. However, case is significant in system areas because the search in ls-R is case-sensitive. I just checked that it does work to change the original name to UOrnementsADF.fd using
>> 
>> cd /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/adforn
>> sudo mv uOrnementsADF.fd UOrnementsADF.fd
> 
> I should have added after this:
> 
> sudo mktexlsr

Thank you so much, both those got my system to recognise it!  I had tried the renaming before, but not the mktexlsr...


On 3 Oct 2010, at 22:39, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>> cd /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/adforn
>> sudo mv uOrnementsADF.fd UOrnementsADF.fd
> 
> Which could produce an error when tlmgr (or TLU) tries to repair that type and does not find the defective file... Maybe a
> 
> 	sudo ln uOrnementsADF.fd UOrnementsADF.fd
> 
> which creates *one* file with *two* names would allow them to finish their work (cp would produce two files with one contents).


...however, on my system this does not work as - annoyingly - it considers UOrnementsADF.fd to exist already (as uOrnementsADF.fd - i.e., it does not respect case any more) when I try to create the link.


Thanks again to everyone!

Rob

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