[texhax] Installation of TexLive on G5 running MAC OS 10.3

[William F. Adams]

On Feb 2, 2005, at 2:07 PM, William.P.Cleveland at frb.gov wrote:

> I have received the 2 CD's and a DVD for Tex Live.  The installation
> instructions mention the Rock Ridge extensions to the mount command for
> reading disks in High Sierra format.  Do I need these extensions or 
> does
> the MAC OS support High Sierra routinely?
> Checked FAQ and found nothing.  The MAC installation instructions 
> mostly
> say go to the UNIX instructions.

My suggestion would be to:

  - put in the TeXLive inst CD
  - open the MACOSX folder at the root of the disk
  - read the README
  - open up / mount the II2.dmg
  - copy the i-Installer app to a convenient location on your HD (I find 
it important enough to keep in the Applications:Utilities folder
  - run i-Installer, and install the appropriate packages (there was a 
list posted here a while back, or Gerben should have it on his 
i-Installer.app web pages)
  - open up / mount the TeXshop .dmg and follow the instructions to 
install that.

Then, if desired, visit http://scripts.sil.org/xetex and install 
Jonathan Kew's XeTeX, and use the links page there to get Will 
Robertson's FontSpec and you'll have a very nice TeX setup optimized 
for Mac OS X.

William

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