[tex-live] Ubuntu update to 11.10 while texlive 2011 is installed independently

[Axel E. Retif]

On 11/01/2011 03:30 AM, Lars Madsen wrote:

[...]

> I tend not to delete old TUG TLs, so I have a symlink in
>
> <path>/texlive
>
> pointing to the current year. And then use
>
> PATH="/usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-linux:/usr/local/sbin: ... "
>
> Then it is easy to change LaTeX installation, and no reboot/relogin is
> needed.


Ha! I haven't thought about it! You have very ingeniously reproduced the 
Gerben Wierda-Jerome Laurens mechanism to change distributions on the Mac!

I think I might borrow your idea!

In case you haven't seen it ---and if you have half an hour to spend 
laughing---, see

http://river-valley.tv/multiple-tex-distribution-support-in-mactex/


Best

Axel