unable to upgrade/build texlive-bin

2013-04-01 Thread MAS!
Hi I'm under mountain lion and I wish to upgrade texlive-bin (2012_5 2012_6) but it seems it goes in loop and eat all memory and even all 'swap', until the disk is full :-( anyone had the same problem? or it need more than 4G ram and 12G swap to build it? thank you in advance (...)

MacPorts and Brew

2013-04-01 Thread Alex Santos
Hello I recently installed MacPorts because I wanted to check it out. I have had Homebrew installed for some time and it has been working fine for months on end. After trying some basic things in MacPorts without issue I entered brew doctor in terminal and it came back with the following: -

Re: MacPorts and Brew

2013-04-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Alex Santos santosc...@me.com wrote: Warning: You have MacPorts or Fink installed: /opt/local/bin/port This can cause trouble. You don't have to uninstall them, but you may want to temporarily move them out of the way, e.g. You cannot safely run any of

Re: MacPorts and Brew

2013-04-01 Thread Clemens Lang
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:16:08AM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: I'm surprised MacPorts didn't complain about /usr/local. Maybe you haven't tried to install anything yet? MacPorts doesn't check for Homebrew. Some build might fail in strange ways without the cause being obvious, though. If

Re: unable to upgrade/build texlive-bin

2013-04-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 1, 2013, at 05:25, MAS! urk...@libero.it wrote: I'm under mountain lion and I wish to upgrade texlive-bin (2012_5 2012_6) but it seems it goes in loop and eat all memory and even all 'swap', until the disk is full :-( anyone had the same problem? or it need more than 4G ram and

macports on linux

2013-04-01 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, Linux packages are usually outdated. Since macports are usually updated, is there a way to install macports on linux (e.g. ubuntu). -- Regards, Peng ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: macports on linux

2013-04-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 1, 2013, at 21:36, Peng Yu wrote: Linux packages are usually outdated. Since macports are usually updated, is there a way to install macports on linux (e.g. ubuntu). This topic has come up before, but the answer is that this probably will not work very well. Practically nobody tests

Re: macports on linux

2013-04-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: Linux packages are usually outdated. Since macports are usually updated, is there a way to install macports on linux (e.g. ubuntu). Not usefully; MacPorts exists to port Linux stuff to OS X, and typically includes OS