[OS X TeX] TeX on Yosemite

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> The web page I just sent this mailing list warns that if you have TeX installed on an earlier
> system and you update it to Yosemite, there will be a long delay at the
> very end of installation.
> 
> I just got a note from Ross Moore with an extremely helpful work-around.
> 
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
> 
> From Ross Moore:
> 
> A colleague tells me that the way to update to Yosemite, with
> one or more TeX installations installed, is to first
> 
> mv /usr/local/texlive ~
> 
> do the install, then 
> 
> mv ~/texlive /usr/local
> 
> This avoids the installer archiving then re-installing that
> hierarchy *file-by-file*.
> 
> 
> This kind of approach may be useful with other subdirectories
> of  /usr/local  as well.
> 

Depending on permissions, the recipe may require using sudo, as in

sudo mv /usr/local/texlive ~

Same backwards.

--Ettore Aldrovandi