On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:54 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > My Mac has now been upgraded to OS 1.4.5. In the process, a new hard > drive was installed with the new OS and my applications. My other > files, including my tex installation, have remained untouched in my > private folder on our network. My tex installation, from Gerben > Wierda's site, is in a folder called i-packages. If I now download > LyX 1.3.7 or 1.4.1, should they work? I'm wondering whether the > original tex installation process put any necessary tex related file > in someplace other than the i-packages folder. If so, it may have > been deleted in process of upgrading the OS.
Actually, i-Installer installs gwTeX in /usr/local/, not in the i-packages folder. (i-packages/ is merely a repository for the compressed, uninstalled packages.) However, it sounds like with the upgrade of your Mac, gwTeX has *not* been reinstalled. (I'd bet whoever upgraded you didn't think to copy over the /usr/local/ directory.) So you probably will need to reinstall all your i-packages. How can you tell? -- See if LyX works; if it doesn't, reinstall gwTeX, etc. Other than that, you might have put your own TeX-related files in ~/Library/texmf/. If so, make sure those got transferred over. > Another question: My tex installation is tex.ii2. Are there good > reasons to download the newest version of tex? I'll let others answer that. Bennett
