[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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