[OS X TeX] Uninstalling an earlier installation

Eric Weir eeweir at bellsouth.net
Wed Dec 28 13:14:34 EST 2011


On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> This local extension to the (yearly) TeX Live/Mac TeX installation is optional. I think even if it has been removed it was recreated by the new installation. You can check in a shell, for example in Terminal:
> 
> 	ls -l /usr/local/texlive
> 	du -sh /usr/local/texlive/*
> 
> The first command will list "branches" of TeX Live/Mac TeX, the latter will determine the disk usage of these branches.

Thanks, Peter. I didn't have it so I created it, even though it is optional. What's it for? Any customizations I might do?

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