Le Thu, 28 May 2009 16:24:28 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Lorenzon <de...@pollock-nageoire.net> a écrit :
> Hi, > > > From: Nicolas FRANCOIS <nicolas.franc...@free.fr> > Subject: TeXLive ? > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:46:49 +0200 > > > Hi. > > > > I'm a big (La)TeX user, and teTeX, at least for its packages support, is > > quite outdated (not to mention pdf composition support, and general > > maintainance). > > > > TeXLive is much more up to date, but I'd like to install it "the BLFS > > way", that is, compiling my own binaries, just to be sure I know what is > > where. > > I am a big LaTeX user as well and I use LFS and BLFS > exclusively on my machines. Djezus Pierre, we are very much alike :-) > Anyway I did not self recompile > TeXLive and used the installation process provided by the > TeXLive CD. (BTW you do not need to burn the CD but only > mount the iso image.) If the question is to control where the > different components of TeXLive are placed the installation > tool is very well designed and you never loos control on > it. I personnally wonder if there is a good reason to > recompile all this stuff except if you have a very particular > system on which you can expect particularly good > optimizations. One last question : did you install teTeX at first, or did you install TeXLive immediatelly ? I'll have to uninstall teTeX, I think. If you installed TeXLive first, was there some prerequisite other than the ones mentionned by the teTeX page ? Thanks. \bye -- Nicolas FRANCOIS | /\ http://nicolas.francois.free.fr | |__| X--/\\ We are the Micro$oft. _\_V Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. darthvader penguin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
