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2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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5 | %general-entities;
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6 |
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7 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-download-http "https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz">
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8 |
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9 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-download-ftp " ">
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10 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-md5sum "00268146cfced12c34fe5f515f032c69">
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11 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-date "20220321"> <!-- in the directory name -->
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12 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-size "5.6 MB">
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13 |
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14 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize "118 MB for basic TeX and latex, 7.1 GB if everything is included">
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15 | <!ENTITY tl-installer-time "varies, depending on network speed and traffic">
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16 | ]>
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17 |
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18 | <sect1 id="tl-installer" xreflabel="install-tl-unx">
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19 | <?dbhtml filename="tl-installer.html"?>
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20 |
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21 | <sect1info>
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22 | <date>$Date$</date>
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23 | </sect1info>
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24 |
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25 | <title>install-tl-unx</title>
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26 |
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27 | <indexterm zone="tl-installer">
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28 | <primary sortas="a-install-tl-unx">install-tl-unx</primary>
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29 | </indexterm>
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30 |
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31 | <sect2 role="package">
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32 | <title>Introduction to TeX Live and its installer</title>
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33 |
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34 | <para>
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35 | The <application>TeX Live</application> package is a comprehensive
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36 | TeX document production system. It includes TeX, LaTeX2e, ConTeXt,
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37 | Metafont, MetaPost, BibTeX and many other programs; an extensive
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38 | collection of macros, fonts and documentation; and support for
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39 | typesetting in many different scripts from around the world.
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40 | </para>
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41 |
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42 | <para>
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43 | This page is for people who wish to use the binary installer to
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44 | provide the programs, the scripts, and a lot of supporting files and
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45 | documentation. The installer is updated frequently, so any published
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46 | md5sum will soon be out of date. Newer versions of the
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47 | installer are expected to work with these instructions, for so long as
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48 | they install to a
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49 | <filename class="directory">&texlive-year;/</filename> directory.
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50 | </para>
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51 |
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52 | <para>
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53 | There are two reasons why you may wish to install the binaries in BLFS:
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54 | either you need a smaller install (e.g. at a minimum plain TeX without
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55 | LaTeX2e, ConTeXt, etc), or you wish to use <command>tlmgr</command> to
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56 | get updates whilst this version is supported (typically, until April of
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57 | the year after it was released). For the latter, you might prefer to
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58 | install in your <filename class="directory">/home</filename> directory
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59 | as an unprivileged user, and to then make corresponding changes to the
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60 | PATH in your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> or equivalent.
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61 | </para>
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62 |
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63 | &lfs111_checked;
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64 |
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65 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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66 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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67 | <listitem>
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68 | <para>
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69 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&tl-installer-download-http;"/>
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70 | </para>
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71 | </listitem>
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72 | <listitem>
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73 | <para>
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74 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&tl-installer-download-ftp;"/>
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75 | </para>
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76 | </listitem>
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77 | <listitem>
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78 | <para>
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79 | <!--Download MD5 sum: &tl-installer-md5sum; (for &tl-installer-date;)-->
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80 | Download MD5 sum: Varies frequently
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81 | </para>
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82 | </listitem>
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83 | <listitem>
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84 | <para>
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85 | Download size: &tl-installer-size;
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86 | </para>
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87 | </listitem>
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88 | <listitem>
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89 | <para>
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90 | Estimated disk space required: &tl-installer-buildsize;
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91 | </para>
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92 | </listitem>
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93 | <listitem>
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94 | <para>
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95 | Estimated build time: &tl-installer-time;
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96 | </para>
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97 | </listitem>
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98 | </itemizedlist>
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99 |
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100 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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101 | <para role="recommended">
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102 | <xref linkend="gnupg2"/> (to validate both the initial downloads, and also
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103 | any updates you might later make using <command>tlmgr</command>.)
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104 | <xref linkend="perl-libwww-perl"/> (to use a single connection to the server,
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105 | which will reduce its load and speed things up.)
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106 | </para>
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107 |
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108 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (at runtime)</bridgehead>
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109 | <para role="recommended">
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110 | The binaries are mostly linked to included static libraries or
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111 | general (LFS) system libraries, but a few of the programs
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112 | and several scripts will fail if the following packages are not present:
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113 | </para>
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114 | <para role="recommended">
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115 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="gs"/> is dynamically loaded by
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116 | the external application <ulink url="https://dvisvgm.de/">dvisvgm</ulink>,
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117 | which is used by <application>asy</application> when that creates SVG
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118 | files.
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119 | </para>
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120 | <para role="recommended">
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121 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="xorg7-lib"/> and
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122 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="libxcb"/> are needed for inimf, mf,
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123 | pdfclose, pdfopen and xdvi-xaw. But if you are using asy, or using a
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124 | <application>TeX</application> engine to create a PDF file, you will
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125 | need <xref role="runtime" linkend="x-window-system"/> (for PDF files,
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126 | this is to support a PDF viewer of your choice, for example
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127 | <xref role="nodep" linkend="epdfview"/>).
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128 | </para>
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129 | <!-- seems to not be needed in 2021
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130 | <para role="recommended">
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131 | the optional non-wide-character ncurses library (for "some binary-only
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132 | application") from the bottom of the <application>Ncurses</application>
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133 | page in LFS is needed
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134 | for xindy.run which is used by <application>xindy</application>
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135 | </para> -->
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136 | <para role="recommended">
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137 | The binary version of <application>asy</application> needs
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138 | <xref linkend="freeglut"/>.
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139 | </para>
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140 | <note>
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141 | <para>
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142 | As always with contributed binary software, it is possible that the
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143 | required dependencies may change when the installer is updated. In
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144 | particular, these dependencies have only been checked on x86_64.
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145 | </para>
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146 | </note>
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147 | <!-- text for runtime deps, shared with texlive -->
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148 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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149 | href="../../xincludes/texruntime.xml"/>
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150 |
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151 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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152 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/tl-installer"/></para>
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153 |
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154 | </sect2>
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155 |
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156 | <sect2 role="installation">
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157 | <title>Binary Installation of TeX Live</title>
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158 |
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159 | <para>
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160 | The <application>TeX Live</application> set of programs with its
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161 | supporting documents, fonts, and utilities is very large. The upstream
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162 | maintainers recommend placing all files in a single directory structure.
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163 | BLFS recommends <filename class='directory'>/opt/texlive</filename>.
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164 | </para>
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165 |
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166 | <para>
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167 | As with any other package, unpack the installer and change into its
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168 | directory, <filename class='directory'>
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169 | install-tl-<CCYYMMDD></filename>.
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170 | This directory name changes when the installer is updated, so replace
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171 | <CCYYMMDD> by the correct directory name.
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172 | </para>
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173 |
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174 | <note>
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175 | <para>
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176 | The distribution binaries installed below may use static linking
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177 | for general linux system libraries. Additional libraries or
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178 | interpreters as specified in the dependencies section do not need to
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179 | be present during the install, but the programs that need them will
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180 | not run until their specific dependencies have been installed.
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181 | </para>
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182 |
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183 | <!-- please keep something like this in the future -->
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184 | <para>
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185 | With all contributed binary software, there may be a mismatch between
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186 | the builder's toolchain and your hardware. In most of TeX this will
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187 | probably not matter, but in uncommon corner cases you might hit
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188 | problems. e.g. if your x86_64 processor does not support 3dnowext or
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189 | 3dnow, the 2014-06-28 binary failed in conTeXt when running LuaTeX,
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190 | although lualatex worked, as did the i686 binaries on the same
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191 | machine. In such cases, the easiest solution is to install texlive
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192 | from source. Similarly, the x86_64 binary version of
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193 | <command>asy</command> runs very slowly when creating 3-D diagrams.
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194 | </para>
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195 | </note>
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196 |
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197 | <para>
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198 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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199 | </para>
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200 |
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201 | <screen role="root"><userinput>TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive ./install-tl</userinput></screen>
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202 |
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203 | <para>
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204 | This command is interactive and allows selection or modification of
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205 | platform, packages, directories, and other options. The full installation
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206 | scheme will require about 4.9 gigabytes of disk space. The time to
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207 | complete the download will depend on your internet connection speed
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208 | and the number of packages selected.
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209 | </para>
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210 |
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211 | <para>
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212 | It has been established by debian that the <command>python</command>
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213 | scripts in <filename class="directory">latex-make</filename> will work
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214 | with <command>python3</command>, so update them to invoke that by running
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215 | the following command as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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216 | user:
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217 | </para>
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218 |
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219 | <screen role="root"><userinput>for F in /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/scripts/latex-make/*.py ; do
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220 | test -f $F && sed -i 's%/usr/bin/env python%/usr/bin/python3%' $F || true
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221 | done
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222 | </userinput></screen>
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223 |
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224 | </sect2>
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225 |
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226 | <sect2 role="commands">
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227 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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228 |
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229 | <para>
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230 | <command>test -f $F && sed ...</command>: in a small install these
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231 | files might not be present, so test if they exist and if not return 'true'
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232 | to avoid any error if this command has been copied into one of your own install scripts.
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233 | </para>
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234 |
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235 | <para>
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236 | <option>./install-tl --location
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237 | http://mirror.aut.ac.nz/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/</option>: use a
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238 | variation of this if you wish to use a different mirror, e.g. because
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239 | you are in New Zealand but the installer chooses to use an Australian
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240 | mirror. The list of mirrors is at http://ctan.org/mirrors.
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241 | </para>
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242 |
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243 | </sect2>
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244 |
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245 | <sect2 role="content">
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246 | <title>Contents</title>
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247 |
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248 | <segmentedlist>
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249 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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250 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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251 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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252 |
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253 | <seglistitem>
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254 | <seg>Over 300 binaries and symlinks to scripts</seg>
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255 | <seg>None</seg>
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256 | <seg>/opt/texlive</seg>
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257 | </seglistitem>
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258 | </segmentedlist>
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259 |
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260 | <variablelist>
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261 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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262 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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263 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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264 |
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265 | <varlistentry id="tl-installer-programs">
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266 | <term><command>TeX programs</command></term>
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267 | <listitem>
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268 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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269 | href="../../xincludes/texprogs.xml"/>
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270 | <indexterm zone="tl-installer tl-installer-programs">
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271 | <primary sortas="b-tl-installer-programs">TeX Live programs</primary>
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272 | </indexterm>
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273 | </listitem>
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274 | </varlistentry>
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275 | </variablelist>
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276 |
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277 | </sect2>
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278 |
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279 | </sect1>
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