Don’t forget i-Installer, which provides a nice GUI for installing a range of LaTeX-related software.
Scott Flinnsays:
Just curious why you advise against X apps in your comment about Fink (I
presume you mean X11 apps in this context).
Also, your comment about Fink seems to be verging on damning by faint
praise. It’s probably worth pointing out that “a few Unix tools” means over
7000 ported packages ranging from simple little tools to complex suites like
LaTeX or KDE. And no matter the complexity, it generally just works. For
example, you might type ‘fink install gimp’ and it will fetch, build and
install the 30 or so package dependencies with no further intervention. I
recently rebuilt Tiger from scratch, and discover almost daily that I’m
missing yet another Fink package that I’ve grown to depend on (last night it
was netpbm).
Don’t forget i-Installer, which provides a nice GUI for installing a range of LaTeX-related software.
Just curious why you advise against X apps in your comment about Fink (I
presume you mean X11 apps in this context).
Also, your comment about Fink seems to be verging on damning by faint
praise. It’s probably worth pointing out that “a few Unix tools” means over
7000 ported packages ranging from simple little tools to complex suites like
LaTeX or KDE. And no matter the complexity, it generally just works. For
example, you might type ‘fink install gimp’ and it will fetch, build and
install the 30 or so package dependencies with no further intervention. I
recently rebuilt Tiger from scratch, and discover almost daily that I’m
missing yet another Fink package that I’ve grown to depend on (last night it
was netpbm).