TeX Live 2025 for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 is now available

David Crosswell curmudgeon at telaman.net.au
Sat Mar 1 14:44:54 PST 2025


On 2/3/25 08:11, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> The TeX Live 2025 system for typesetting and font design is nearing
> the end of its annual release cycle, with successful builds by our
> team on more than 60 systems, covering a wide range of CPUs and
> operating systems.
>
> I'm pleased to report that a build on DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 has been
> successful, and TeX Live for that system is available for download and
> installation according to instructions here:
>
>          https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/
>
>          https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/#install
>
>          https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/#dragonflybsd-640-x86_64
>
> Because DragonFlyBSD binaries are not part of the standard TeX Live
> distributions, you need to first pull them down from
>
>          https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/bin/x86_64-dragonflybsd640.tar.xz
>
> then unpack them, and use the --custom-bin option of the install-tl
> script.  Depending on the choice of the --scheme option, disk space
> requirements range from about 0.2GB to 10GB.
>
> Happy TeXing!


Thanks for this.

A major plus!

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