Nikola, Sorry to ask, but you mention that the new TeXLive 2010 will be released this summer. Do you know *when exactly* it will be released?
I am also hoping that if use either the pretest one, or the official release, that *it*(The install procedure) also setup the paths, otherwise one has to do this manually :( I have an install CD for TeXLive 2009 and it does not have the needed binaries, and I know I can find them in one of your sites, but the process still looks intimidating :( BTW, it would be a blessing, if some kind soul out there, builds packages (texlive-20XY-amd64.tbz or texlive-20XY-i386) that does everything automagically :), but I know that is asking for too much :( The ports system by Romain Tartarian looked nice, but it is *not an official* port and if one takes the ports method, the teteX 3.0 gets installed (it is not bad, but quite old :( and no updates to fix security issues ) The binaries that you provide one still has to do a great deal of work, if one could script it? unless of course waiting for TeXLive 2010 does all of this for us(including setting the path set path=/usr/local/texlive20XY/bin automagically :) I don't know what to do, since Roland, yourself and Anh provided nice responses. I originally had FreeBSD 6.X on one of my machines with TeTeX , kile, and it was working beautifully but then a hard drive failure put me out of business :( I guess I should be patient, I see that time is ticking and with patience one can get more things done. Regards, Antonio On 7/25/10, Nikola Lečić <nikola.le...@anthesphoria.net> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:55 +0000 > Antonio Olivares <olivares14...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] >> Don't want to add insult to injury or offend anyone, I just want to >> see how installing texlive on FreeBSD can be made easier? > > TeX Live 2010 will support FreeBSD (i386 and amd64). It will work out > of the box for FreeBSD 7 and 8. The TL development tree is frozen now > and the release will be out during summer. > > If you can't wait, you can use TeX Live 2010 pretest, it's pretty stable > and most likely identical to the release: > > http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html > > If you need binaries for FreeBSD<=6, please visit these pages: > > http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-Devel/bin-r19416/ > > (r19416 is TL2010 build). > > A reply to all people that wrote about how big TL is: TeX Live is a > _distribution_, not a single piece of software. It has its own package > manager, tlpkg. You can use it to remove anything you don't need after > install. The TL installer supports installing various "schemes". If you > need a minimal TeX, you can choose scheme "minimal", it's actually much > smaller than teTeX. > > Please read TL Guide, it's very useful and can answer all your > questions: > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/ > > Best wishes, > -- > Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић > fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
