[tex-live] TeX Live 2008 does not install on FreeBSD

[Yue Wang]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> That is bad.
>
> It seems that the binaries we have for lzmadec.i386-freebsd are not
> working.
>
> Do you have on your system a working lzmadec? If yes you can do the
> following:
>
> - get the networt installation package
>        mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
> - unpack it
> - replace
>        install-tl/tlpkg/installer/lzma/lzmadec.i386-freebsd
>  with a working copy
> - call install-tl as is (thus installing from the network), or with
>        perl ./install-tl -location /dvd/texlive/
>  which will use the packages from the DVD.
> - after the installation is done again replace the lzmadec.i386-freebsd
>  in DESTINATION_FOLDER/texlive/2008/tlpkg/installer/lzma/
>
> Hope that helps.
>

If LZMA and TL binary are built on the same machine, after the
installation, the problem will appear again.


> Probably no linuxism, probably too new or too old or whatever. No idea.
>

linking 6 to 7. or remap it in libmap.

> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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Yue Wang