In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The LyX-Installer script checks for a TeX installation in /usr/local/ > teTeX/... and in /sw/bin before /opt/bin, and it picks the first one > it finds to install a few files (which include preview.sty and > srcltx.sty among a few others). So it shouldn't install these files > in /opt/local if you have a TeX installation in /usr/local, and so > the default PATH Prefix setting should be appropriate in this case. > (Do you really have a working teTeX installation in /usr/local/ > teTeX/...?) this is a good question and why i didn't ask this before baffles me at the moment. it appears that i don't have anything in /usr or /usr/local and that these directories are only present in the PATH array. i don't have fink installed, so i don't have multiple tex installations after all. i suppose i must have assumed that i had an installation that was detected and reflected in the PATH array. my apologies. > I'm not sure whether macports will overwrite these LyX files or not > when you upgrade, but it is a possibility. (i-Installer has a > separate directory for user-installed files that are not touched when > upgrading.) You can test and see: upgrade macport's teTeX, and then > run the LyX installer. If it says it needs to reinstall preview.sty > and srcltx.sty, then it has overwritten those files. (And that would > be good for me to know.) the next time i notice that the teTeX port needs to be upgraded, i will do this. i do know that the lyx installer prompted me to overwrite a file so i imagine that it's a possibility i will loose it. > Note, however, that the files that LyX installs here are needed only > for some special features, which you may not use at all: they are not > *needed* for LyX (though they are nice to have in some cases). good to know. thanks. /mike
