[texhax] TeX Collection won't install on Mac OS 10.7.4

Thomas Schneider schneidt at mail.nih.gov
Thu Sep 6 02:48:43 CEST 2012


Christopher:

> Have a look at 
> http://tug.org/mactex/DVDbugfix.html

Thanks!  However the pointer there to

MacTeX-2012-DVD.mpkg.zip (270 MB)
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX-2012-DVD.mpkg.zip

is incredibly slow - 40 minutes to download!  I killed it.

Is there a better mirror than this?

I found a list of mirrors:

http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/README.mirrors

and chose one, then dug down:

http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/

	MacTeX-2012-DVD.mpkg.zip	10-Jul-2012 20:03 	255M

Why is the size different than the page you mentioned?

wget http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX-2012-DVD.mpkg.zip

ETA 5 minutes.  That's better.

267859177 Jul 10 22:03 MacTeX-2012-DVD.mpkg.zip
Ok, that DOES round to "270".  The ctan.math.utah.edu archive is off.

Anyway, the installation went fine with the DVDbugfix.

SUMMARY:

Could someone please fix the tug page so that it points to appropriate
mirrors?

Thanks,

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms


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