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  <!ENTITY tl-installer-download-http   "http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz">

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  <!ENTITY tl-installer-md5sum          "d90a8e6b1d9d96210a95ed7901356f41">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-size            "2.9 MB">

  <!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize        "3.8 GB">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-time            "varies, depending on network speed and traffic">
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<sect1 id="tl-installer" xreflabel="install-tl-unx">
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    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>install-tl-unx</title>

  <indexterm zone="tl-installer">
    <primary sortas="a-install-tl-unx">install-tl-unx</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to TeX Live and its installer</title>

    <para>The <application>TeX Live</application> package is a comprehensive
    TeX document production system.  It includes TEX, LaTeX2e, ConTEXt,
    Metafont, MetaPost, BibTeX and many other programs; an extensive collection
    of macros, fonts and documentation; and support for typesetting in many
    different scripts from around the world.</para>

    <para>It is necessary to use a binary installer for the first install.
    This will provide the programs, the scripts, and a lot of supporting files
    and documentation.  After that, you can rebuild the programs from source
    by following the instructions for <xref linkend="texlive"/>.  The installer
    is updated frequently, so its md5sum will change if it is newer than what
    is shown below.  Newer versions of the installer are expected to work with
    these instructions, for so long as they install to a
    <filename class="directory">&texlive-year;/</filename> directory.</para>

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&tl-installer-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&tl-installer-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &tl-installer-md5sum; (at 20140213)</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &tl-installer-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &tl-installer-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &tl-installer-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (at runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      The binaries are mostly linked to static libraries such as
      <filename class="libraryfile">libc.a</filename>, but a few of the programs
      and several scripts will fail if the following packages are not present -
      there may be other libraries which are dynamically loaded.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="gs"/> is dynamically loaded by (at least) asy.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="libdrm"/>,
      <xref linkend="freeglut"/> and
      <xref linkend="glu"/> are needed for asy.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/> and
      <xref linkend="libxcb"/> are needed for asy, inimf, mf, pdfclose, pdfopen
      and xdvixaw.
    </para>
    <para>
      the optional non-wide-character ncurses libraries (for "some binary-only
      application") from the bottom of the <application>Ncurses</application>
      page in LFS are needed for asy and xindy.run.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="ruby"/> is used by many scripts,
      <xref linkend="tk"/> is used by epspdftk
    </para>

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

  </sect2>

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

    <para>The <application>TeX Live</application> set of programs with its
    supporting documents, fonts, and utilities is very large.  The upstream
    maintainers recommend placing all files in a single directory structure.
    BLFS recommends <filename class='directory'>/opt/texlive</filename>.</para>

    <para>First, unpack the installer and change into the installer's
    directory, <filename class='directory'>install-tl-&lt;CCYYMMDD&gt;</filename>.
    This directory name changes when the installer is updated, so replace
    &lt;CCYYMMDD&gt; by the correct directory name.</para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf install-tl-unx.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
cd install-tl-&lt;CCYYMMDD&gt; </userinput></screen>

    <note><para>The distribution binaries installed below use static linking
    for general linux system libraries.  Additional libraries or interpreters
    as specified in the dependencies section do not need to be present during
    the install, but the programs that need them will not run until their
    specific dependencies have been installed.</para></note>

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

<screen><userinput role="root">TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive ./install-tl</userinput></screen>

    <para>This command is interactive and allows selection or modification of
    platform, packages, directories, and other options.  The full installation
    scheme will require about 3.8 gigabytes of disk space.  The time to complete
    the download will depend on your internet connection speed and the
    number of packages selected.</para>

    <para>After the package download is complete, the next step is to make sure
    that the system can properly find the files.  If you set up your login
    scripts as recommended in <xref linkend='postlfs-config-profile'/>, update
    the needed paths by appending to the <filename>extrapaths.sh</filename> script.
    The programs are always installed in an &lt;ARCH&gt;-linux subdirectory.  If
    you are not using x86_64, <emphasis>always</emphasis> change that to your
    actual installation location.</para>

<screen><userinput role="root">cat &gt;&gt; /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
pathappend /usr/share/man                        MANPATH
pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man  MANPATH
pathappend /usr/share/info                       INFOPATH
pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info INFOPATH
pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/x86_64-linux
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <note><para>The standard MANPATH and INFOPATH path are specified above to
    ensure they are included.  If they are already set in the boot script
    procedure, the pathappend function will ensure duplicates are
    removed, so including them here will do no harm.</para></note>

    <para>The new paths can be immediately activated by running <command>source
    /etc/profile</command>.</para>

    <para>At this point the binary installation is complete.</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>None</seg>
        <seg>/opt/texlive</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="tl-installer-programs">
        <term><command>TeX&nbsp;programs</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>included in the <application>TeX Live</application> package are
          too numerous to individually list. Please refer to the individual
          program man and html pages in the installation directory's 2011/index.html
          directory, or the various PDF files within the subdirectories of texmf-dist.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="tl-installer tl-installer-programs">
            <primary sortas="b-tl-installer-programs">TeX Live programs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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