How can I uninstall the macports tex packages?
I have installed MacTex 2013 and it seems to be properly installed, except that the binaries used at are from macports.
"sudo port uninstall texlive" will not do anything. No output from the command.
"sudo port list | grep tex/" gives the following list of installed tex programs:
BibTool @2.55 tex/BibTool
LaTeXML @0.7.0 tex/LaTeXML
LaTeXiT @2.5.0 tex/LaTeXiT
biblatex-biber @0.9.9 tex/biblatex-biber
bibutils @4.12 tex/bibutils
blahtexml @0.9 tex/blahtexml
detex @2.8 tex/detex
disvf @0 tex/disvf
dot2texi @3-0-0 tex/dot2texi
dvipng @1.14 tex/dvipng
kde4-kile @2.1.3 tex/kde4-kile
kile @2.0.1 tex/kile
latex2rtf @2.3.3 tex/latex2rtf
latexdiff @1.0.2 tex/latexdiff
latexmk @4.35 tex/latexmk
luatex @0.65.0 tex/luatex
makejvf @1.1a tex/makejvf
pTeX @20110314 tex/pTeX
pgf @2.10 tex/pgf
pgf-devel @2010-09-28 tex/pgf-devel
ptex-sfmacros @0 tex/ptex-sfmacros
rtf2latex @1.5 tex/rtf2latex
rtf2latex2e @2.0.1 tex/rtf2latex2e
rubber @1.1 tex/rubber
sketch @0.3.7 tex/sketch
tetex-frogg @0.4-3 tex/tetex-frogg
tetex-rechnung @3.10 tex/tetex-rechnung
tex-beamerposter @112 tex/tex-beamerposter
tex-f7u12 @dev tex/tex-f7u12
tex-gantt @1.3 tex/tex-gantt
tex-songs @2.14 tex/tex-songs
tex-whizzytex @1.3.1 tex/tex-whizzytex
texlive @2012 tex/texlive
texlive-basic @26926 tex/texlive-basic
texlive-bibtex-extra @26726 tex/texlive-bibtex-extra
texlive-bin @2012 tex/texlive-bin
texlive-bin-extra @26926 tex/texlive-bin-extra
texlive-common @2012 tex/texlive-common
texlive-context @26873 tex/texlive-context
texlive-documentation-arabic @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-arabic
texlive-documentation-base @26923 tex/texlive-documentation-base
texlive-documentation-bulgarian @19296 tex/texlive-documentation-bulgarian
texlive-documentation-chinese @26851 tex/texlive-documentation-chinese
texlive-documentation-czechslovak @26864 tex/texlive-documentation-czechslovak
texlive-documentation-dutch @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-dutch
texlive-documentation-english @26760 tex/texlive-documentation-english
texlive-documentation-finnish @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-finnish
texlive-documentation-french @26782 tex/texlive-documentation-french
texlive-documentation-german @26888 tex/texlive-documentation-german
texlive-documentation-italian @26875 tex/texlive-documentation-italian
texlive-documentation-japanese @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-japanese
texlive-documentation-korean @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-korean
texlive-documentation-mongolian @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-mongolian
texlive-documentation-polish @26827 tex/texlive-documentation-polish
texlive-documentation-portuguese @24139 tex/texlive-documentation-portuguese
texlive-documentation-russian @26661 tex/texlive-documentation-russian
texlive-documentation-serbian @26818 tex/texlive-documentation-serbian
texlive-documentation-slovenian @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-slovenian
texlive-documentation-spanish @24109 tex/texlive-documentation-spanish
texlive-documentation-thai @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-thai
texlive-documentation-turkish @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-turkish
texlive-documentation-ukrainian @15878 tex/texlive-documentation-ukrainian
texlive-documentation-vietnamese @21855 tex/texlive-documentation-vietnamese
texlive-fonts-extra @26866 tex/texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-recommended @26838 tex/texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fontutils @26926 tex/texlive-fontutils
texlive-formats-extra @26689 tex/texlive-formats-extra
texlive-games @26207 tex/texlive-games
texlive-generic-extra @26700 tex/texlive-generic-extra
texlive-generic-recommended @26785 tex/texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-htmlxml @26926 tex/texlive-htmlxml
texlive-humanities @25861 tex/texlive-humanities
texlive-lang-african @23085 tex/texlive-lang-african
texlive-lang-arabic @26822 tex/texlive-lang-arabic
texlive-lang-armenian @20529 tex/texlive-lang-armenian
texlive-lang-cjk @26926 tex/texlive-lang-cjk
texlive-lang-croatian @23085 tex/texlive-lang-croatian
texlive-lang-cyrillic @26689 tex/texlive-lang-cyrillic
texlive-lang-czechslovak @26926 tex/texlive-lang-czechslovak
texlive-lang-danish @23085 tex/texlive-lang-danish
texlive-lang-dutch @25990 tex/texlive-lang-dutch
texlive-lang-english @25990 tex/texlive-lang-english
texlive-lang-finnish @25990 tex/texlive-lang-finnish
texlive-lang-french @26756 tex/texlive-lang-french
texlive-lang-german @26867 tex/texlive-lang-german
texlive-lang-greek @26902 tex/texlive-lang-greek
texlive-lang-hebrew @15878 tex/texlive-lang-hebrew
texlive-lang-hungarian @25806 tex/texlive-lang-hungarian
texlive-lang-indic @26926 tex/texlive-lang-indic
texlive-lang-italian @26234 tex/texlive-lang-italian
texlive-lang-latin @25990 tex/texlive-lang-latin
texlive-lang-latvian @25990 tex/texlive-lang-latvian
texlive-lang-lithuanian @23085 tex/texlive-lang-lithuanian
texlive-lang-mongolian @25990 tex/texlive-lang-mongolian
texlive-lang-norwegian @23085 tex/texlive-lang-norwegian
texlive-lang-other @26614 tex/texlive-lang-other
texlive-lang-polish @25990 tex/texlive-lang-polish
texlive-lang-portuguese @25990 tex/texlive-lang-portuguese
texlive-lang-spanish @25990 tex/texlive-lang-spanish
texlive-lang-swedish @23085 tex/texlive-lang-swedish
texlive-lang-tibetan @15878 tex/texlive-lang-tibetan
texlive-lang-turkmen @25990 tex/texlive-lang-turkmen
texlive-lang-vietnamese @22766 tex/texlive-lang-vietnamese
texlive-latex @26725 tex/texlive-latex
texlive-latex-extra @26807 tex/texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended @26788 tex/texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex3 @19447 tex/texlive-latex3
texlive-luatex @26718 tex/texlive-luatex
texlive-math-extra @26720 tex/texlive-math-extra
texlive-metapost @26926 tex/texlive-metapost
texlive-music @26926 tex/texlive-music
texlive-omega @26926 tex/texlive-omega
texlive-pictures @26791 tex/texlive-pictures
texlive-plain-extra @25953 tex/texlive-plain-extra
texlive-pstricks @26865 tex/texlive-pstricks
texlive-publishers @26831 tex/texlive-publishers
texlive-science @26607 tex/texlive-science
texlive-xetex @26926 tex/texlive-xetex
xindy @2.4 tex/xindy
Does this mean I should execute "port uninstall" for each one of the above lines?
Solution 1:
First of all, port list shows all packages that are known to MacPorts. To get a list of packages that are actually installed, use port installed. Slower but with a few more details: port list installed.
As for your actual problem: Maybe the reason why uninstalling "texlive" produces no output is because the package is not installed in the first place. Try to determine a concrete binary that is interfering with MacTex and that you want to get rid of. Then determine the MacPorts package to uninstall with this command: port provides /path/to/file.
Solution 2:
I was trying to solve the same problem because I have a working MacTeX install, but then macports installed texlive as a dependency (for auctex). Mark's comment,
Yes, or perhaps put the MacTex path ahead on your $PATH,
prompted me to check, and sure enough, the MacTeX path was totally absent. I have simply put it on the front of my $PATH variable and things now work as before. I'll deal with that extra texlive installation some other time :p.
In terminal do
cd /usr/local/texlive
and then ls (list the directory) and such to follow the directories until you find your texlive binaries (e.g. latex, pdftex, etc). Once you find the full path to them you can add them to your bash profile (see below).
Put something like this into your ~/.bash_profile file BELOW any changes made by MacPorts texlive.
export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH
Solution 3:
sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents texlive-bin
This should do it. Just in case, do the same for texlive-common.