teTeX does not install

[darrell@…]

I did:

port install teTeX

and for more than an hour the computer has been sitting here:

braeburn:/opt/local root# port install teTeX ---> Installing teTeX 3.0_1

with no indication that it is making any progress other than tclsh8.4 burning about 33% of the CPU. So it looks like I am in some unpleasant middle state. A lot of stuff got installed, but not TeX. Restarting the command takes me right back to where I am hung, and uninstall fails since teTeX is not yet installed.

[gwright@…]

What is your platform? On my powerbook G4 1.5 GHz with 1 GB RAM, teTeX alone takes about 45 minutes to build (if all the dependencies are present).

Try "port -v install teTeX"; the -v flag will give verbose output and let you watch all of the installation excitement!

Greg

[darrell@…]

Same config as yours: 1GB and 1.5GHz. After about another hour it finished. Weird.

Do you know how to get pdflatex to do letter size by default? I can't find a pdflatex.cfg file.

Thanks for the help.

[gwright@…]

Hi Darrell,

I'll mark the bug as closed. Thanks for getting back to me.

To set the default paper size in teTeX, use the "texconfig" command in a terminal window. teTeX has modified the standard configuration methods of a number of the component applications, so you won't find a "pdflatex.cfg" or "pdftex.cfg".

Best Wishes, Greg