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  <!ENTITY texlive-download-http " ">
  <!ENTITY texlive-download-ftp  "ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-md5sum        "a5d992e3cb8554ce92c55adde03958ba">
  <!ENTITY texlive-size          "53 MB">

  <!ENTITY texlive-buildsize      "8.5 GB including the additional download and the tests, 6.4 GB installed">
  <!ENTITY texlive-time           "5.8 SBU including the additional download and the tests, building with parallelism=4">

  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-download-http " ">
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-download-ftp  "ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-md5sum        "bca40df2ff11269fbcb2d1b4ff0278b1">
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-size          "3.0 GB">

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  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-download-ftp  "ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/&texlive-year;/texlive-&tex-tlpdb-version;-tlpdb-full.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-md5sum        "d8cd997c1bba422b30c9bc225e508794">
  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-size          "2.9 MB">

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<sect1 id="texlive" xreflabel="texlive-&texlive-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="texlive.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>texlive-&texlive-version;-source</title>

  <indexterm zone="texlive">
    <primary sortas="a-texlive">texlive</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to TeX Live from source</title>

    <para>
      Most of TeX Live can be built from source without a pre-existing
      installation, but <application>xindy</application> (for indexing) needs
      working versions of <command>latex</command> and
      <command>pdflatex</command> when configure is run, and the testsuite
      and install for <command>asy</command> (for vector graphics) will fail
      if TeX has not already been installed. Additionally,
      <application>biber</application> is not provided within the
      <application>texlive</application> source and the version of
      <application>dvisvgm</application> in the
      <application>texlive</application> tree cannot be built
      if shared system libraries are used.
    </para>

      <para>
      </para>
    <para>
      All of those packages are dealt with on their own pages and can be
      built after installing this package. If you have not already done so, you
      should start at <xref linkend="tex-path"/> so that the final commands to
      initialise the new installation will be found.
    </para>

    &lfs101_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &texlive-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &texlive-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &texlive-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &texlive-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

      <para>
        Much of the texlive environment (including scripts, documentation,
        fonts, and various other files) is not part of the source tarball.
        You must download it separately. This will give you all of the
        additional files which are provided by a full install of the binary
        version, there is no realistic way to restrict which parts get
        installed.
      </para>

      <para>
        Because of the size of this package, it is unlikely to be mirrored by
        BLFS mirrors.  In case of difficulty, go to http://www.ctan.org/mirrors/
        to find a more-accessible mirror.
      </para>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-texmf-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-texmf-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &texlive-texmf-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &texlive-texmf-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>  

      <para>
        From the 2019 year, the tlpdb database of the packages within texlive is
        no-longer installed with the source. But <command>texdoc</command> needs
        a cache file derived from this (and will create the cache on its first
        run).
      </para>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-tlpdb-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-tlpdb-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &texlive-tlpdb-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &texlive-tlpdb-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>

<!--  <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch: <ulink url=
          "&patch-root;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>-->
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">TeX Live from source Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gs"/> <emphasis>including
      <filename>libgs.so</filename></emphasis>, <!--(for dvisvgm, which is used by e.g.
      <xref role="nodep" linkend="asymptote"/>); still referenced for dynamic loading,
      even without dvisvgm - e.fg. by dvipsk -->
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
    </para>

    <!-- text for recommended libraries -->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/texrecommendlibs.xml"/>

<!-- the following ensures jhalfs will set paths before running texlive -->

    <para role="recommended">
      Furthermore, the instructions below assume you are using the layout
      described in <xref linkend="tex-path"/>.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <!-- text for optional deps -->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/texoptional.xml"/>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Runtime dependencies</bridgehead>
    <!-- text for runtime deps, shared with tl-installer -->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/texruntime.xml"/>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/texlive"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of TeX Live</title>

    <para>
      Install TeX Live by running the following commands:
    </para>

    <caution>
      <para>
        The instructions here for dealing with <application>poppler</application>
        will only work with versions of poppler used in BLFS-9.1 and later, i.e.
        poppler &gt;= 0.83.0. If you wish to upgrade an older system, there
        are versions of <filename>pdftoepdf{,-poppler*}.cc</filename> and
        <filename>pdftosrc{,-newpoppler,-poppler*}.cc</filename> in <filename
        class="directory">texk/web2c/pdftexdir</filename>. You should establish
        which version of <application>poppler</application> is installed and use
        the appropriate versions of these files.
      </para>

      <para>
        Similarly, if you wish to upgrade to current <application>texlive</application>
        on an older system where extra packages (<application>asymptote</application>.
        <application>biber</application>, <application>dvisvgm</application> or
        <application>xindy</application>) have been installed, you will need to
        reinstall those as well as fixing up your <literal>PATH</literal> for
        <literal>/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;</literal>.
      </para>
    </caution>

    <para>
      The shared libraries will be installed into a texlive directory.
      As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, add it to
      your <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; EOF
<literal># Begin texlive &texlive-year; addition

/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/lib

# End texlive &texlive-year; addition</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      <application>TexLive</application> ships with a very old version of
      <application>poppler</application>, and some updated files for newer versions.
      To use the system version, first identify it and then copy the correct
      versions of the updated files (please read the Caution above):
    </para>

<!-- on a release, drop this back to current version but update the
 Caution above and ideally keep this commented, every other (expletive
 deleted) poppler update tends to break this.  Fortunately, upstream
 has deleted the poppler directory from their source in
 https://tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=55138
 so from TL2021 this aggravation should be gone. -->
<screen><userinput>SYSPOP= &amp;&amp;
MYPOPPLER_MAJOR=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f1)
if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MAJOR" = "0" ]; then
    # if major was >=20, minor could start with 0 and not fit in octal
    # causing error from 'let' in bash.
    let MYPOPPLER_MINOR=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f2)
else
    # force a value > 85
    let MYPOPPLER_MINOR=99
fi
if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MINOR" -lt 85 ]; then
    # BLFS-9.1 uses 0.85.0, ignore earlier versions in this script.
    # If updating texlive on an older system, review the available
    # variants for pdftoepdf and pdftosrc to use system poppler.
    SYSPOP=
else
    SYSPOP="--with-system-poppler --with-system-xpdf"
    if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MINOR" -lt 86 ]; then
        mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.83.0,}.cc
    else # 0.86.0 or later, including 20.08.0.
        mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.86.0,}.cc
    fi
    # For pdftosrc BLFS-9.1 uses 0.83.0 and that is the latest variant.
    mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc{-poppler0.83.0,}.cc
fi &amp;&amp;
export SYSPOP &amp;&amp;
unset MYPOPPLER_{MAJOR,MINOR}</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>
        A successful install requires some texlive
        commands to be run as the root user, so we will export the TEXARCH
        variable to let <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> use it.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Now, as a normal user:
    </para>
<!-- after the export!
patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;-->
<screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;

mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
cd texlive-build    &amp;&amp;

../configure                                                    \
    --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;                                  \
    --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/$TEXARCH                     \
    --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;                             \
    --includedir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/include                      \
    --infodir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info             \
    --libdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/lib                              \
    --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man               \
    --disable-native-texlive-build                              \
    --disable-static --enable-shared                            \
    --disable-dvisvgm                                           \
    --with-system-cairo                                         \
    --with-system-fontconfig                                    \
    --with-system-freetype2                                     \
    --with-system-gmp                                           \
    --with-system-graphite2                                     \
    --with-system-harfbuzz                                      \
    --with-system-icu                                           \
    --with-system-libgs                                         \
    --with-system-libpaper                                      \
    --with-system-libpng                                        \
    --with-system-mpfr                                          \
    --with-system-pixman                                        \
    ${SYSPOP}                                                   \
    --with-system-zlib                                          \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &amp;&amp;

make &amp;&amp;
unset SYSPOP</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
      One of the Kpathsea tests will fail because BLFS uses system
      libraries.
   <!--  https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2019-August/003036.html -->
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<!-- Editors, you can run 'make texlinks' in a DESTDIR by passing
DESTDIR#some/where -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-strip &amp;&amp;
/sbin/ldconfig &amp;&amp;
make texlinks &amp;&amp;
mkdir -pv /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &amp;&amp;
tar -xf ../../texlive-&tex-tlpdb-version;-tlpdb-full.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>
        Only run <command>make texlinks</command> once. If it is rerun,
        it can change all the program symlinks so that they point to
        themselves and are useless.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Now install the additional files as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<!-- if texmf does not need to be patched, remove &amp;&amp; from first line,
 close userinput, screen, comment pushd, patch, popd -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../../texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; --strip-components=1</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Still as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
      initialise the new system (the commands <command>fmtutil-sys
      --all</command> and <command>mtxrun --generate</command> will produce
      a <emphasis>lot</emphasis> of output):
    </para>

<!-- Editors, fmtutil-sys and mtxrun \-\-generate can apparently only be run on
a real install, as root.  But mktexlsr can be run in a DESTDIR with
cd /YOUR/TEXMF/ROOT ; ls -LAR ./ >ls-R -->

<screen role="root"><userinput>mktexlsr &amp;&amp;
fmtutil-sys --all &amp;&amp;
mtxrun --generate</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      You can now proceed to <xref linkend="asymptote"/>,
      <xref linkend="biber"/>, <xref linkend="dvisvgm"/> and / or <xref
      linkend="xindy"/> if you wish to install them.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

<!--<para>
      <command>patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-1.patch</command>:
      various problems have come to light since the shipped source was frozen to
      be committed to DVDs.
    </para>-->

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/tex-lib.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-shared.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-system.xml"/>
<!--
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-xpdf.xml"/>-->

    <para>
      <command>--disable-dvisvgm</command>: As noted above, the shipped version
      of dvisvgm, which has modified configuration files, cannot be built with
      shared system libraries.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--without-x</option>: use this if you do not have Xorg installed.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>/sbin/ldconfig</command>: this has to be run here so that
      <command>make texlinks</command> can use kpsewhich.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>make texlinks</command> : this runs the texlinks.sh script
      to create symbolic links from formats to engines.  In
      practice, several of the targets such as <command>xetex</command> are now
      separate binaries and for these it will report "file already exists".
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>tar -xf texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; --strip-components=1</command>:
      the tarball contains the files for the texmf-dist directory, and because
      of its size we do not want to waste time and space untarring it and then
      copying the files.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/*
      /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg/TeXLive/</command>: This puts the perl
      modules <filename>TLConfig.pm</filename> and <filename>TLUtils.pm</filename>
      into the directory where the binary installer puts them - it is at the
      start of the perl @INC@ PATH within texlive when installed using the above
      configure switches. Without these modules, texlive is unusable.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>mktexlsr</command>: Create an <filename>ls-R</filename> file
      which lists what was installed - this is used by kpathsea to find files.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>fmtutil-sys --all</command>: This initializes the TeX formats,
      Metafont bases and Metapost mems.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>mtxrun --generate</command>: This initializes the ConTeXt system.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>Over 300 binaries and symlinks to scripts</seg>
        <seg>libkpathsea.so, libptexenc.so, libsynctex.so, libtexlua52.so,
        libtexluajit.so</seg>
        <seg>/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin, /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/include,
        /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/lib, /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="texlive-programs">
        <term><command>TeX&nbsp;programs</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
          href="../../xincludes/texprogs.xml"/>
          <indexterm zone="texlive texlive-programs">
            <primary sortas="b-texlive-programs">TeX Live programs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libkpathsea">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libkpathsea.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            (kpathsearch) exists to look up a file in a list of directories
            and is used by <command>kpsewhich</command>
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libkpathsea">
            <primary sortas="c-libkpathsea">libkpathsea.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libptexenc">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libptexenc.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a library for Japanese pTeX (publishing TeX)
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libptexenc">
            <primary sortas="c-libptexenc">libptexenc.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libsynctex">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsynctex.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the SyncTeX (Synchronize TeXnology) parser library
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libsynctex">
            <primary sortas="c-libsynctex">libsynctex.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtexlua52">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtexlua52.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides Lua 5.2, modified for use with LuaTeX
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libtexlua52">
            <primary sortas="c-libtexlua52">libtexlua52.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtexluajit">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtexluajit.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides LuaJIT, modified for use with LuaJITTeX
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libtexluajit">
            <primary sortas="c-libtexluajit">libtexluajit.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>