On May 19, 2016, at 3:23 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote:
> On 19 May 2016 at 12:06, <list_em...@icloud.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to make a functional replacement for TeXLive 2013 provided by >> MacTeX http://tug.org/mactex/, using MacPorts, and reaching some level of >> frustration with figuring out what MacPorts stuff I need. I did >> >> sudo port install texlive +medium >> >> But now, for example, a long-worked-on LyX project now fails to compile, >> complaining of >> >> LaTeX Error: File `prettyref.sty' not found. > > This one is in texlive-latex-extra. > >> Ditto for flushend and who knows what else will pop up. I went through the >> various port descriptions at macports.org that contain texlive in their >> names and get a very limited amount of information such as >> >> name texlive-latex-extra >> ... >> description TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages >> long_description A very large collection of add-on packages for LaTeX >> >> That's it. Is there some way to figure out what ports I need to add to get >> specific functionality? Or will I have to bite the bullet and do sudo port >> install texlive +full which warns "Full installation scheme (very large!)". > > If you want a full replacement of MacTeX, you need to do the full > installation of TeX Live. I no longer have version 2013 installed, but > MacTeX 2016 is 5 GB (minus epsilon). You cannot get any thinner > installation by getting the full installation scheme from MacPorts > except that you wouldn't be installing PPC and 32-bit Intel binaries. > > If you merely want to compile your documents and want to discover > which packages are needed, we really should set up some service to > list the files in the packages, but at the moment most likely the > easiest way is to do a checkout of > svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb > > And search for that file. You can find it in package "prettyref": > > name prettyref > category Package > revision 15878 > ... > runfiles size=1 > texmf-dist/tex/latex/prettyref/prettyref.sty > > > and the package prettyref is in colection "latexextra": > > name collection-latexextra > category Collection > revision 40214 > ... > depend pressrelease > depend prettyref > depend preview > > And then you know which package to install. I agree that this is > pretty annoying though, but I don't see any better solution at the > moment (other than perhaps installing MikTeX; last time I tried it > failed to compile on OS X though). > > Mojca Thanks, Mojca. I notice that my /usr/local/texlive/2013 is 3.4 GB so I should be able to delete that in due course. I'll look into the svn link and most likely install +full. I also notice from some saved e-mails that you've helped me a lot before. 8^) Jerry _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
