%general-entities; ]> $Date$ texlive 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 testsuite 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 initialise the new installation will be found. &lfs101_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; From the 2019 year, the tlpdb database of the packages within texlive is no-longer installed with the source. But texdoc needs a cache file derived from this (and will create the cache on its first run). Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &texlive-tlpdb-md5sum; Download size: &texlive-tlpdb-size; Required patch: TeX Live from source Dependencies Recommended including libgs.so, Furthermore, the instructions below assume you are using the layout described in . Optional Runtime dependencies User Notes: Install TeX Live by running the following commands: If you wish to upgrade to current texlive on an older system where extra packages (asymptote. biber, dvisvgm or xindy) have been installed, you will need to reinstall those as well as fixing up your PATH for /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;. The shared libraries will be installed into a texlive directory. As the root user, add it to your /etc/ld.so.conf: cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << EOF # Begin texlive &texlive-year; addition /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/lib # End texlive &texlive-year; addition EOF 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;-upstream_fixes-1.patch && mkdir texlive-build && cd texlive-build && ../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 \ --with-system-zlib \ --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" && make To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install-strip && /sbin/ldconfig && make texlinks && mkdir -pv /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg/TeXLive/ && install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg/TeXLive/ && tar -xf ../../texlive-&tex-tlpdb-version;-tlpdb-full.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/tlpkg 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 /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; --strip-components=1 It has been established by debian that the python scripts in latex-make will work with python3, so update them to invoke that by running the following command as the root user: for F in /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/scripts/latex-make/*.py ; do sed -i 's%/usr/bin/env python%/usr/bin/python3%' $F done Still as the root user, initialise the new system (the commands fmtutil-sys --all and mtxrun --generate will produce a lot of output): mktexlsr && fmtutil-sys --all && mtxrun --generate You can now proceed to , , and / or if you wish to install them. patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-1.patch: A small update to mpost and LuaTeX caused the binaries to be rebuilt. This patch applies the same fixes. --disable-dvisvgm: As noted above, the shipped version of dvisvgm, which has modified configuration files, cannot be built with shared system libraries. --without-x: use this if you do not have Xorg installed. /sbin/ldconfig: this has to be run here so that make texlinks can use kpsewhich. 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 /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; --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/* /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/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. mtxrun --generate: This initializes the ConTeXt system. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories Over 300 binaries and symlinks to scripts libkpathsea.so, libptexenc.so, libsynctex.so, libtexlua52.so, libtexluajit.so /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin, /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/include, /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/lib, /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/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