texlive?

[donallen]

I just installed 8.0-release on an amd64 system and it appears that there is no texlive package, nor is it present in the ports collection. The older tetex Latex implementation is present.

Googling, I find

http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/wiki/Installing

which provides an arcane method for installing texlive on a FreeBSD system. texlive is available via normal installation in the Arch Linux distribution and also OpenBSD, so I'm guessing this isn't a licensing issue. Can someone explain this?

Thanks --
/Don Allen

 

[vermaden]

Here is how to get (really easy) texlive 2008:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=44134&postcount=27

More info:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8292
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7530

 

[Nirbo]

Also, http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html

Due to the trouble a nice mailing list user (and I believe he's part of trying to get the port back in the tree) made some binaries that you can download and pkg_add.

EDIT: The link Saint posted is in my link ;D So click on it to go more directly to the binary packages, lol

 

[Saint0fCloud]

texlive 2009 binary builds for both i386 and amd64, Nikola Lecic (Fixed, thanks Oko)

http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2009/bin/

Edit: Now that I can edit posts, sorry for the repost of the link Nirbo beat me to it

 

[Oko]

texlive 2009 binary builds for both i386 and amd64, thanks to oliverh

http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2009/bin/

You mean thanks to Nikola Lecic. Oliver has nothing to do with it with all due respect. Give the credit were the credit is due!!!

 

[oliverh]

http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-December/024085.html

Thanks to Nicola Lecic, freebsd binaries are back in the main TL
repository -- both i386-freebsd and amd64-freebsd. They are included in
tonight's rebuild and will henceforth available in the installer. They
are built from the TL'09 release sources on FreeBSD 7.