source: pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml@ fb7ec07

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  %general-entities;

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

  <!ENTITY tl-installer-download-ftp    " ">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-md5sum          "e80f92667fb65f38dae88d1c5b22dba3">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-date             "20190529"> <!-- in the directory name -->
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-size            "3.8 MB">

  <!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize        "6.2 GB if everything is included">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-time            "varies, depending on network speed and traffic">
]>

<sect1 id="tl-installer" xreflabel="install-tl-unx">
  <?dbhtml filename="tl-installer.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <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>This page is for people who wish to use the binary installer to
    provide the programs, the scripts, and a lot of supporting files and
    documentation.  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>

    <para>
      There are two reasons why you may wish to install the binaries in BLFS:
      either you need a smaller install (e.g. at a minimum plain TeX without
      LaTeX2e, ConTeXt, etc), or you wish to use <command>tlmgr</command> to
      get updates whilst this version is supported (typically, until April of
      the year after it was released). For the latter, you might prefer to
      install in your <filename class="directory">/home</filename> directory
      as an unprivileged user, and to then make corresponding changes to the
      PATH in your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> or equivalent.
    </para>

    &lfs84_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; (for &tl-installer-date;)</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</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gnupg2"/> (to validate both the initial downloads, and also
      any updates you might later make using <command>tlmgr</command>.)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (at runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      The binaries are mostly linked to included static libraries or
      general (LFS) system libraries, but a few of the programs
      and several scripts will fail if the following packages are not present:
    </para>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="gs"/> is dynamically loaded by dvisvgm,
      which is used by <application>asy</application> when that creates SVG
      files.
    </para>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="xorg7-lib"/> and
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="libxcb"/> are needed for inimf, mf,
      pdfclose, pdfopen and xdvi-xaw. But if you are using asy, or using a
      <application>TeX</application> engine to create a PDF file, you will
      need an <xref role="runtime" linkend="x-window-system"/> (for PDF files,
      this is to support a PDF viewer of your choice, for example
       <xref role="nodep" linkend="epdfview"/>).
    </para>
    <para role="recommended">
      the optional non-wide-character ncurses library (for "some binary-only
      application") from the bottom of the <application>Ncurses</application>
      page in LFS is needed
      for xindy.run which is used by <application>xindy</application>
    </para>
    <para role="recommended">
      The binary version of <application>asy</application> needs
      <xref linkend="freeglut"/>.
    </para>
    <para>
      As always with contributed binary software, it is possible that the required
      dependencies may change when the installer is updated. In particular, these
      dependencies have only been checked on x86_64.
    </para>
    <!-- text for runtime deps, shared with texlive -->
    <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;/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>As with any other package, unpack the installer and change into its
    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>

    <note>
    <para>
    The distribution binaries installed below may 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>

    <!-- please keep something like this in the future -->
    <para>
    With all contributed binary software, there may be a mismatch between the
    builder's toolchain and your hardware.  In most of TeX this will probably
    not matter, but in uncommon corner cases you might hit problems.
    e.g. if your x86_64 processor does not support 3dnowext or 3dnow, the
    2014-06-28 binary failed in conTeXt when running LuaTeX, although lualatex
    worked, as did the i686 binaries on the same machine. In such cases, the
    easiest solution is to install texlive from source. Similarly, the x86_64
    binary version of <command>asy</command> runs very slowly when creating 3-D
    diagrams.
    </para>
    </note>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>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 4.9 gigabytes of disk space.  The time to complete
    the download will depend on your internet connection speed and the
    number of packages selected.</para>

  </sect2>

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

    <para>
      <option>./install-tl --location
      http://mirror.aut.ac.nz/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/</option>: use a
      variation of this if you wish to use a different mirror, e.g. because
      you are in New Zealand but the installer chooses to use an Australian
      mirror. The list of mirrors is at http://ctan.org/mirrors.
    </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>
          <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
          href="../../xincludes/texprogs.xml"/>
          <indexterm zone="tl-installer tl-installer-programs">
            <primary sortas="b-tl-installer-programs">TeX Live programs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>