On 11/10/2009, at 03:30, Chris Schram wrote: > I'm trying to run update-all tonight, and fink insists on downloading > texlive-20080822-texmf-delpdf.tar.bz2. It's telling me this monster is > 434MB in size. I'm on a connection that enforces a strict fair access > police. This file is several times my daily bandwidth allotment. > > What IS this thing? > What package(s) need it to run? Maybe I don't need them. > Why does it have to be so fricken big?
Hello, Chris. TeX Live was released yesterday. It's a (La)TeX implementation (a system used to typeset documents, widely known amongst mathematicians, and also used as a means to generate PDF and PostScript documents) that replaces our old teTeX, which was discontinued more than three years ago and started to show its age -- a couple of months ago we had build problems because teTeX considered its own files to be too old. Instead of downloading those files yourself you may have them downloaded elsewhere and copied to your system via a local network or some physical medium (e.g. CD). That huge download is: http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/texlive-20080822-texmf-delpdf.tar.bz2 MD5: a36e3022adfcbe65de9b29b3003b5e0f and you should place it under /sw/src so that Fink recognises it. You may use the MD5 checksum above to check if the download worked correctly -- Fink will refuse to use that file if the MD5 checksum doesn't match. Another option is to use some download manager and get smaller chunks until you have the whole thing. If you want to check which packages are pulling this download, run fink remove tetex-texmf It'll say that it won't remove tetex-texmf because other packages depend on it, and list those packages. Cheers, -- monipol http://finkers.wordpress.com Submitting a Fink bug report? Read this: http://www.finkproject.org/doc/netiquette/index.php http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/bug-reports/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
