[tex-live] How to make TexLive 2008 the default TeX system?

[Lars Madsen]

Guoqin Ren wrote:
> I have installed Tex Live 2008 and Kile 2.0 on my FreeBSD machine. Kile 
> works well. But I'm not sure if Kile is using TexLive or things like tetex.
> 
> The tex version I use is rather old: kpathsea version 3.5.4. I guess 
> Texlive 2008 should includes kpathsea version 3.5.7.
> 
> # tex -version
> TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> kpathsea version 3.5.4
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 D.E. Knuth.
> Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
> covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
> the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files
> named COPYING and the TeX source.
> Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.
> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
> 

just check the placement of the binaries

which latex

and then make sure that the TL2008 binary path comes first in the search 
path


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/daleif