TeXLive installation
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:57:41 +0000 (GMT)
Wybo Dekker writes:
> 1. I wanted to install everything under a specific directory, so
> instructed the GhostScript install to put the gstools directory
> there also. This resulted in an error message from gswin32c about
> not finding gs_init.ps. That file was only looked for in
> C:\gstools.
Fabrice, maybe you can comment on this. Is it a Ghostscript problem?
> 2. I did not find Perl on the CD anymore, is that right? I would very
> much like to have it back on the next one.
Lack of space was what drove it off, and the assumption that it is so
universal. I can try to find space next time.
> 3. I Tried to use the CD as a Live CD but then I missed the possibility
> to run gs from it. I had to install GhostScript on my harddisk.
GS is a pig, because of needing to set a pointer to its support files,
which is hard to explain. Do you mean for Win32, or Unix as well?
> 4. The total size of the basic installation is much larger than on the
> TeXLive3 CD. I would like to have a really basic configuration.
I really hope that someone will volunteer to get down and clean this
up. I am happy that we have the mechanism in place to classify
packages, but I am not happy that my fairly old and quick
classification was right.
But also note that the win32 setup was NOT based on the same material
as the Unix ones; it had its own ideas, which did not turn out quite
right. Next time I would hope that Unix and win32 will be identical in
this respect.
Sebastian