giusva Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Dear all after spending 3 days on instaling MAC OS X in my thinkpad x40 I am the happiest man on earth. Everything is working great (Except wireless). Now I am back to the software side. I am installing the programs I use without problems. The onlky one missing is Latex. I need a latex distribution. I tries installing Fink (did not work out well), darwinports (same as before). I was wondering if somebody has the following binaries Latex ImageMagik Freetype-2 ghostscript 8 Lamer0 at lamer0.com is suppodely making these packages available for download. But the server has been down for a while. Pointers appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebox Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 ??? http://lamer0.com work well for me i've just tried it and it's up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-20032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpeters13 Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 Have you tried installed TeX for os X and then using Texshop? Works great here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-20086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giusva Posted October 1, 2005 Author Share Posted October 1, 2005 Have you tried installed TeX for os X and then using Texshop? Works great here I tried installing TeX for Mac OS X (gwTeX using the i-installer) but the i-installer does not seem to work. Can you please tell me what did you do in order to get a working distribution on your MAC OS X86. Thanks. lamer0.com is up all the time. test.lamer0.com is up only when lamer0 main computer is on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-20130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehve Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Dear all after spending 3 days on instaling MAC OS X in my thinkpad x40 I am the happiest man on earth. Everything is working great (Except wireless). Now I am back to the software side. I am installing the programs I use without problems. The onlky one missing is Latex. I need a latex distribution. I tries installing Fink (did not work out well), darwinports (same as before). I was wondering if somebody has the following binaries Latex ImageMagik Freetype-2 ghostscript 8 Lamer0 at lamer0.com is suppodely making these packages available for download. But the server has been down for a while. Pointers appreciated. for Latex distribution, use TeTeX included in Darwinports. for editors, try TeXShop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-20295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGDenton Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 mehve, Gabriel Wenda' s gwTeX distribution works all right. First, you have to update iInstaller itself to a Universal Binary version from the Experimental directory, then install the gwTeX 2005 UB distribution from the same directory. The fact that it doesn't work comes from its having been compiled for 10.4.2. Maxxus has released a patch (replaces your kernel) that will allow you to bypass the restriction Apple put to prevent you from running it (available from this site). I recommend that you manually uninstall the Darwinports distrib before you do this (that caused me endless problems). Finally, a very good text editor that's a universal binary is TextMate. It has a more-than-useful LaTeX bundle that allows, among other things, for forward and backward synchronisation between source and view. For that, you'll also have to install the TeXniscope viewer (not UB, but the source is available, so one could recompile it). Hope that was helpful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-20303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chebyshev Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 What I did to get TeXShop working was the following: Follow the instructions at http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/installing.html up until it tells you to use i-Installer to get TeX. I built TeX on my own using darwinports once and then just from the source once. Once you have the binaries built (either way you choose to do it), just put them where TeXShop expects them to be (or change where TeXShop looks) and you're in business. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-20564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin3stone Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 What I did to get TeXShop working was the following: Follow the instructions at http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/installing.html up until it tells you to use i-Installer to get TeX. I built TeX on my own using darwinports once and then just from the source once. Once you have the binaries built (either way you choose to do it), just put them where TeXShop expects them to be (or change where TeXShop looks) and you're in business. Good luck. Dear all, I am a totally beginner. I am just wondering if anyone could give a fairly complete tutorial on how to get latex worked in mac osx x86. I need it to write my thesis, but i have no clues how to get it worked. Thanks a lot for your time and discussion! Kevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3146-latex-fink-darwinports-lamer0-is-down/#findComment-24080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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