[tex-live] [tlpmgui] Re: tlpmgui and linux

[Tomasz Łuczak]

Dnia Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:49:30 +0100
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 
> There is one thing which had been changed recently in install-tl.sh:
> 
> In TeXLive-2005 the default installation directory had been
> /usr/local/texlive/2005 but you can change it the menu if you want.
> 
> However, install-tl.sh now looks for the environment variable
> TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX.  If this variable is set, for example
> 
>   TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive
> 
> and you start install-tl.sh it installs it at /opt/texlive/2006 but
> you are still able to select any other directory in the
> menu.  TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX only sets the default value.
> 
> If the variable is not set, /usr/local/texlive/2006 will be the
> default.
> 
> It would be nice if tlpm and tlpmgui could look for this variable too.
> I don't think that many people make use of it but I feel happier if
> similar programs behave similar.

Ok. tlpmgui will looks for TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

Regards
Tomek
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