[OS X TeX] TeX on Yosemite

[Richard Seguin]

I installed Yosemite on a Core2Duo MBP using the two commands below, before and after, and did not get an excessive install time. I think it was a total of 1.5 hours, which is typical for this machine.

Unfortunately, I waited until post-install indexing was done to execute the second command in the terminal. That triggered the OS to do a considerable amount of re-indexing.

BBEdit, Skim, and TeXShop, and the BBEdit integration scripts I use all work fine, and I had no trouble typesetting the first time. However, on my non-retina MBP, type quality is noticeably worse in Skim, TeXShop, and Preview than it was before I installed Yosemite. Skim may look a little worse than TeXShop. Does anyone know what’s happening with font rendering?

Richard Séguin


> On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:39 PM, Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> What exactly do these two Unix commands do? I’m guessing the “mv” might mean move, but it’s not clear where things are moved to.
> 
> mv /usr/local/texlive ~
> 
> mv ~/texlive /usr/local
> 
> Also, there is a space in the first command between “/texlive" and “~", and there is a space in the middle of the second command, between “/texlive" and “/usr". Are these two spaces supposed to be there?
> 
> Richard Séguin
> 
> 
> On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:47 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.
>> 
>> 
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