[tex-live] Problems with texlive install on MacOS X 10.4.11

Yannis Haralambous yannis1962 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 23:58:57 CET 2012


Thanks, we will do that!
It would be nice if the install script could notify the user that the package is not compatible (after all the platform is called "universal-darwin", and as proven by our misfortune, universality is relative in this case).
Cheers
Yannis

Le 11 févr. 2012 à 23:34, Adam R. Maxwell a écrit :

> 
> On Feb 11, 2012, at 13:07 , Yannis Haralambous wrote:
> 
>> I tried to install texlive 2011 on an Intel Mac running MacOS X 10.4.11.
> 
> [...]
> 
> As you found out, TL 2011 for Mac OS X requires 10.5.8 or later.  The
> requirements are noted here:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/
> 
> Presumably you used the UNIX install script?  The MacTeX package should
> have kept you from installing it on an incompatible system.
> 
>> The Mac was previously running texlive 2007 (which I stupidly erased and now the owner of the Mac is in deep trouble because she cannot run any TeX anymore).
> 
> Old MacTeX is still available:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/faq/3-4.html
> 
> hth,
> Adam
> 




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