Re: [frogs] ready to (re)start

[John Mandereau <john.mandereau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 13 janvier 2010 à 18:45 -0500, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : 
> which tex
> 
> gives
> 
> /opt/local/bin/tex
> Indy:lilypond-git kmac$ tex --version
> TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> kpathsea version 3.5.6
> Copyright 2007 D.E. Knuth.
> Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
> covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
> the Lesser GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file
> named COPYING and the TeX source.
> Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.
> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others.
> 
> I know that I installed it when I installed TeXShop some years ago (definitely in OS 10.4 or earlier).

Mmmhh, with this information I can't be sure which TeX distro you have,
but I guess it might be teTeX via MacPorts... if it is, I highly
recommend you to install a recent TeX distro with bugfixes and new
features rather than investigating why an old and no longer maintained
TeX distro doesn't work.


> What do I need to do to update/upgrade?
> And will doing so affect [adversely] my TeXShop installation/work —
> this is critical right now, since I'm in the middle of polishing two
> number theory papers for publication very soon.

Just grab and install TeXlive 2009 in a directory well separated from
the rest of installed programs, e.g. /usr/local/texlive; you can
download it through an automatically-selected mirror from
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/

Make sure to install all the package groups you need for all your usages
of TeX (TeXlive is nearly an extensive distro, so this should't be a
problem) Then just put at the end of ~/.bashrc (or whatever the rc file
of your shell is)

PATH=/usr/local/texlive/SOME/SUB/DIRECTORY:$PATH
export PATH

Then if you're too lazy to exit and start a shell in a terminal again,
do

source ~/.bashrc

Then, if you need for some reason to disable TeXlive 2009, you only have
to tune the PATH like above, or comment out these two lines.

HTH,
John

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