On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > bf <bf20...@yahoo.com> writes: > > >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live. > > > > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done. > > Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually > installing it as free-standing software is not too hard. > > Get it from here: > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html > > > I find that the live installation over the internet works very well - the > links are there on the same page. Everything is installed in its own > directory structure so it is easy to clean out if you need to do so. > > One useful point - in the main menu TeX Live gives the opportunity for the > installer to create symbolic links to its main programs in standard > directories. It is so much easier than doing so by hand!!
It is less messy if you just add the path to the TeXLive binaries to the
path element of the default profile in /etc/login.conf:
default:\
:passwd_format=blf:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES,LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8:\
:path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/amd64-freebsd ~/bin:\
:nologin=/var/run/nologin:\
:cputime=unlimited:\
:datasize=unlimited:\
:stacksize=unlimited:\
:memorylocked=unlimited:\
:memoryuse=unlimited:\
:filesize=unlimited:\
:coredumpsize=unlimited:\
:openfiles=unlimited:\
:maxproc=200:\
:sbsize=unlimited:\
:vmemoryuse=unlimited:\
:priority=0:\
:ignoretime@:\
:umask=022:
Also add the location of the manpages to /etc/manpath.config:
OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/man
MANPATH_MAP usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/amd64-freebsd
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/man
You should change the paths to match those in your own installation.
Roland
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