Hi, From: Nicolas FRANCOIS <[email protected]> Subject: Re: TeXLive ? Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 06:21:44 +0200
> Le Thu, 28 May 2009 16:24:28 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Lorenzon > <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> >> From: Nicolas FRANCOIS <[email protected]> >> Subject: TeXLive ? >> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:46:49 +0200 >> >> > Hi. >> > >> > I'm a big (La)TeX user, and teTeX, at least for its packages support, is >> > quite outdated (not to mention pdf composition support, and general >> > maintainance). >> > >> > TeXLive is much more up to date, but I'd like to install it "the BLFS >> > way", that is, compiling my own binaries, just to be sure I know what is >> > where. >> >> I am a big LaTeX user as well and I use LFS and BLFS >> exclusively on my machines. > > Djezus Pierre, we are very much alike :-) > >> Anyway I did not self recompile >> TeXLive and used the installation process provided by the >> TeXLive CD. (BTW you do not need to burn the CD but only >> mount the iso image.) If the question is to control where the >> different components of TeXLive are placed the installation >> tool is very well designed and you never loos control on >> it. I personnally wonder if there is a good reason to >> recompile all this stuff except if you have a very particular >> system on which you can expect particularly good >> optimizations. > > One last question : did you install teTeX at first, or did you install > TeXLive immediatelly ? I'll have to uninstall teTeX, I think. If you > installed TeXLive first, was there some prerequisite other than the ones > mentionned by the teTeX page ? I installed TeXLive when moving from lfs 6.1 to 6.3 after having changed the machine itself. Thus teTeX was not installed when I installed TeXLive. Anyway it might be better to remove teTeX before installing TeXLive. But you can specify the path where TeXLive will be installed and separate it completely from teTeX. If you do so, and do not tell TeXLive to symlink the binaries to standard directories (/bin, /usr/bin, ...) the binaries installed by TeXLive won't be accessible in a standard manner. If the binaries/libraries installed by teTeX remain present on the system they certainly might conflict with taht installed by TeXLive. There is no special prerequisit for installing TeXLive. Anyway there is a complete html documentation in the TeXLive distribution and you can have a look at the first sections where prerequisits are mentionned. Regards Pierre > > Thanks. > > \bye > > -- > > Nicolas FRANCOIS | /\ > http://nicolas.francois.free.fr | |__| > X--/\\ > We are the Micro$oft. _\_V > Resistance is futile. > You will be assimilated. darthvader penguin > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
