Not Quite a Blog

Well, I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard (SL) and it went pretty dang smoothly, I must say. Especially, considering that I did a full "Erase and Install", where one erases their old disk, does a new installation of SL by booting from the SL DVD (and installing SL) and then uses migration assistant to get their old stuff back from an attached volume (a clone in my case).

So far pretty much everything works, even my old Photoshop CS... the http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ wiki helped a lot in terms of figuring out what works and what doesn't on 64-bit SL.

The strangest thing is that I think migration assistant even copied over the stuff from my sw/ directory, a fink directory that I assumed wouldn't be copied. That seems to be a good thing in terms of my productivity (I don't have to spend a few days building things I need).

Only a few hiccups:

1. I can't get Fink Commander to work, no matter what I do. I guess I'll have to be satisfied with command-line fink, oh boy. I'm not even sure if it asked me if I wanted to start to build things in 64-bit. I guess I'll assume I'm still building in 32-bit. Not sure how to tell.

2. LaTeX needed a bit of massaging to get to work... I had to run the following commands at the command-line as an admin user (you can just su foobar to masquerade as the user foobar). These commands, 1) update the tex and latex paths so that it knows about your custom packages and 2) updates the font mapping so that it knows about any custom fonts:

   sudo texhash
   sudo updmap-sys
   

3. Anti-RSI crashes, but you just have to update to 2.1 which is SL compatible.