%general-entities; ]> texlive According to the master site in France only supports ftp and rsync. Now that ftp is generally deprecated, that page has links to mirrors, some of which support https, e.g. in Utah and Chemnitz as well as in China. If you prefer to use a different mirror from the example links here, you will need to navigate to systems/historic/texlive/&texlive-year; or systems/texlive/&texlive-year; as the case may be. Most of TeX Live can be built from source without a pre-existing installation, but xindy (for indexing) needs working versions of latex and pdflatex when configure is run, and the test suite and install for asy (for vector graphics) will fail if TeX has not already been installed. Additionally, biber is not provided within the texlive source and the version of dvisvgm in the texlive tree cannot be built if shared system libraries are used. 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 so that the final commands to initialize the new installation will be found. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &texlive-md5sum; Download size: &texlive-size; Estimated disk space required: &texlive-buildsize; Estimated build time: &texlive-time; Required Additional Downloads 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. 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. Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &texlive-texmf-md5sum; Download size: &texlive-texmf-size; The tlpdb database is shipped as a separate tarball. The texdoc program needs a cache file derived from this (and will create the cache on its first run). Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &texlive-extra-md5sum; Download size: &texlive-extra-size; Required patch: TeX Live from source Dependencies Recommended Furthermore, the instructions below assume you are using the layout described in . Optional Runtime dependencies Install TeX Live by running the following commands: If you wish to upgrade to current texlive on an older system where extra packages (asymptote, dvisvgm, or xindy) have been installed, you will need to reinstall those as well as fixing up your PATH for $TEXLIVE_PREFIX. A successful install requires some texlive commands to be run as the root user, so we will export the TEXARCH variable to let root use it. Now, as a normal user: export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') && patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-1.patch && mkdir texlive-build && cd texlive-build && ../configure -C \ --prefix=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX \ --bindir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH \ --datarootdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX \ --includedir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/include \ --infodir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/info \ --libdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib \ --mandir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/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 \ --with-system-zlib \ --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" && make To test the results, issue: make -k check. One test psutils.test is known to fail if using system libpaper because TeX Live includes old versions of both psutils and libpaper which result in a difference in the final decimal places of the psresize test. The libpaper developer does not think this is significant. Now, as the root user: make install-strip && make texlinks && mkdir -pv $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/ && install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/ && tar -xf ../../texlive-&texlive-version;-extra.tar.xz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg --strip-components=2 Only run make texlinks once. If it is rerun, it can change all the program symlinks so that they point to themselves and are useless. Now install the additional files as the root user: tar -xf ../../texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX --strip-components=1 Still as the root user, initialize the new system (the command fmtutil-sys --all will produce a lot of output): mktexlsr && fmtutil-sys --all To allow or to link to libkpathsea.so, as the &root; user (re)create a symlink from /usr/lib: ln -svf $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib/libkpathsea.so{,.6} /usr/lib TeX Live does not include the source for ConTeXt, only the items that are at CTAN. Trying to build ConTeXt purely from source on a BLFS TeX Live system is a niche usage and looks as if it will be more trouble than it is worth. If you wish to use ConTeXt with luametatex (most of the old MKII and MKIV code was removed from TeX Live 2023 by the ConTeXt developer), starting with the binary (only installing ConTeXt, 753 MB in March 2024) would probably be the easiest way to bootstrap it. The source for luametatex can be pulled with git from github luametatex, compiled with meson and ninja, and installed by copying to the correct program directory. This should avoid having to fix all the symlinks etc and also avoid including the many unrelated parts of texmf-dist. See comments 1 to 5 of #17823. You can now proceed to , , and / or if you wish to install them. -C: create config.cache, this saves significant time in a parallel build. --disable-dvisvgm: As noted above, the shipped version of dvisvgm, which has modified configuration files, cannot be built with shared system libraries. make texlinks : this runs the texlinks.sh script to create symbolic links from formats to engines. In practice, several of the targets such as xetex are now separate binaries and for these it will report "file already exists". tar -xf texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX --strip-components=1: 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. install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/: This puts the perl modules TLConfig.pm and TLUtils.pm 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. mktexlsr: Create an ls-R file which lists what was installed - this is used by kpathsea to find files. fmtutil-sys --all: This initializes the TeX formats, Metafont bases and Metapost mems. --without-x: use this if you do not have Xorg installed. There are many other '--disable' or '--without' options. Some of them such as --without-texinfo are accepted but no longer do anything, others will prevent a program being built - but the far greater amount of space used for the related items in texmf means there is no obvious benefit from disabling a few of the programs. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories Over 300 binaries and symlinks to scripts libkpathsea.so, libptexenc.so, libsynctex.so, libtexlua52.so, libtexluajit.so $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin, $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/include, $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib, $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist Short Descriptions TeX programs TeX Live programs libkpathsea.so (kpathsearch) exists to look up a file in a list of directories and is used by kpsewhich libkpathsea.so libptexenc.so is a library for Japanese pTeX (publishing TeX) libptexenc.so libsynctex.so is the SyncTeX (Synchronize TeXnology) parser library libsynctex.so libtexlua52.so provides Lua 5.2, modified for use with LuaTeX libtexlua52.so libtexluajit.so provides LuaJIT, modified for use with LuaJITTeX libtexluajit.so