Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I added what I hope are accurate instructions to build and install the > Tex Live package. Because I use destdir, some things are different from > my installation and the book's instructions. > > If anybody has the time and about 5 gigabytes of available hard disk > space, I sure would appreciate checking out the instructions. If you > already have teTeX installed, this would present a challenge unless you > can remove teTeX via package management.
I had a system without teTeX and used the instructions now in the book. Notes: 1. The texlive-20100722-texmf.tar.xz file is huge. I think it is larger than anything else in BLFS by a factor of 4. I have no idea why the latex documentation alone approaches 1G. The download (on a fairly fast connection) took longer than the entire make. 2. The tar command should have a dash before the xf options. 3. texconfig-sys font rw failed for me. /usr/bin/texconfig: line 257: I traced it down to the line `kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFMAIN` returning //texmf I'll try to track that down. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
