On Jan 30, 2008 8:39 AM, Steffen Hokland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing gnuplot on a MacBook Pro running 10.5.1.
>
> I have installed TeXLive with the MacTex-distribution - however in
> order to install Gnuplot I am prompted to choose an additional tex-
> install through Fink. Is there of installing Gnuplot without having to
> install an additional tex-distribution (apart from loosing the MacTeX
> one and using Fink-tex instead)?
If you ask me, the best thing to do it would be modifyung gnuplot
build, so that it would not require TeX (it uses it for building the
documentation only).
I have once managed to do it by copying the neccessary files to the
places where fink complained the files were missing (I don't remember
details, but something like: copy /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.cnf to
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf etc.). That's the ugliest possible way to
do it, but I had no other choice.
Anther option is to install fink's tetex and modify PATH, so that
fink's TeX comes at the end (and then you will still be able to use
MacTeX):
export PATH=.:~/bin:/usr/texbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:etc.
(texbin is gwTeX's binary path - it might be slightly different for MacTeX)
A much better option would be to have a TeXLive package for fink (or
to fix system-tetex, but they seem to refuse that change), but it
takes a lot of time to figure out how to squeeze texlive on a
reasonable space (I have no experience with creating fink packges and
no idea what to do with 1GB of material there).
I have run into some serious dependency problems lately (that was
after installing fink's tetex - which I find useless to me as it is so
old that nothing I need would compile there). Some package (I have no
idea which one - there were about 60 which needed update) asked me to
choose between "system-tetex" and "jadetex" or something. Of course I
had neither, I have tried different things, but my fink is completely
broken now (unresolved dependencies).
Mojca
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