Once ruby was emerged, texlive installed pretty much without any MAJOR incident. On the #gentoo irc channel, the advice was received to unmask ruby 1.9. There seems to be some variation in how this is done, but that's basically all I needed to do. <br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:57 PM, james <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wireless@tampabay.rr.com">wireless@tampabay.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> <br> Numerous times over the years, I have had fits with texlive*<br> <br></blockquote><div>Luckily this is the first time I've installed texlive on this system. <br><br>I've installed texlive from upstream source various times, without any major issue. It's a heck of a lot better than tetex used to be.<br> <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Heres's m <br> 1) equery b -f '/etc/texmf/.*'<br> 2) Uninstalling all of the above reported ebuilds.<br> 3) rm -rf /etc/texmf/*<br> rm -rf /usr/share/texmf*<br> emerge -C `qlist -I -C dev-texlive/*`<br> 4) emerge -1 texlive<br> <br> Ocationally I have to rebuild the system....<br> caveat emptor......<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I did find it difficult to figure out how to install texlive on Gentoo this time around, though. Seems a good howto is needed. This time around, I bascially just started emerging (emerge texlive) and after all the bumps and twists and turns, eventually I'd figured out that USE flags were needed. I hadn't seen that at first, even though I've installed texlive on Gentoo before, a couple or three years ago. <br> </div><div> <font color="#888888"> <br><br>Alan<br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <br> <br> <br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br>