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If you are in the installer directory, run just:. The following additional packages are recommended:. Figure 2 displays the main text mode screen under Unix. The text installer is the default on Unix. This is only a command-line installer; there is no cursor support at all.

You just type something case-sensitive at the prompt and press the Enter key, and then the entire terminal screen will be rewritten, with adjusted content.

The text installer interface is this primitive in order to make it run on as many platforms as possible, even with a minimal Perl. It can be started with. The installer is intended to be mostly self-explanatory, but following are a few notes about the various options and submenus.

Figure 5 displays the text mode binaries menu. By default, only the binaries for your current platform will be installed.

From this menu, you can select installation of binaries for other platforms as well. This can be useful if you are sharing a TeX tree across a network of heterogeneous machines, or for a dual-boot system.

The default full scheme installs everything available. This is recommended, but you can also choose the basic scheme for just plain and LaTeX, small for a few more programs equivalent to the so-called BasicTeX installation of MacTeX , minimal for testing purposes, and medium or teTeX to get something in between. If you want more control than the collection menus provide, you can use the TeX Live Manager tlmgr program after installation see section 5 ; using that, you can control the installation at the package level.

The default layout is described in section 2. This arrangement enables having many parallel TeX Live installations, such as one for each release typically by year, as here , and you can switch between them merely by altering your search path. A reasonable alternative destination is a directory under your home, especially if you will be the sole user.

Figure 8 shows the text mode options menu. More info on each:. When it is done, skip to section 3. Use the GUI installer if possible. Specify the installer interface language as a standard usually two-letter code. The installer tries to automatically determine the right language but if it fails, or if the right language is not available, then it uses English as a fallback.

Run install-tl --help to get the list of available languages. Install for portable use on, e. Also selectable from within the text installer with the V command, and from the GUI installer. See section 4. Documented only for completeness: Do not use this unless you know what you are doing.

Also, package removal has to be done manually. This option cannot be toggled via the installer interface. If you elected to create symlinks in standard directories described in section 3. Otherwise, on Unix systems, the directory of the binaries for your platform must be added to the search path. On Windows, the installer takes care of this. The man pages might be found automatically after the addition to PATH. This tells tlmgr to use a nearby CTAN mirror for future updates.

This is done by default when installing from DVD, via the option described in section 3. Use the exact path to the tlnet subdir on that mirror, as shown above.

They do these via related but not identical methods. To set up the TeX Live fonts for system-wide use assuming you have suitable privileges , proceed as follows:. You can run fc-list to see the names of the system fonts. The incantation fc-list : family style file spacing all arguments are literal strings shows some generally interesting information.

After each such installation, each MkIV user must run:. While reading, the last found match will take precedence in the case of duplicated cache data. This is already mentioned implicitly in section 2.

These directories are intended to stick around from release to release, and have their content seen automatically by a new TeX Live release. This is not a hard-and-fast requirement. Section 7. This is unfortunately a messy topic for TeX and pdfTeX. Forget about it unless you want to delve into many details of the TeX installation.

The rest of this section gives some basic procedures for testing that the new system is functional. Of course there are many other PDF viewers; on Unix systems, evince and okular are commonly used. The previous sections described the basic installation process. Here we turn to some specialized cases. By the same token, you can also install TeX Live locally and then move the entire hierarchy afterwards to a network location.

For Windows, TeX Live includes a launcher tlaunch. Therefore, workstations with access to TeX Live on the local network only need a menu shortcut for the launcher.

The -portable installer option or V command in the text installer or corresponding GUI option creates a completely self-contained TeX Live installation under a common root and forgoes system integration. To run TeX using this portable installation, you need to add the appropriate binary directory to the search path during your terminal session, as usual.

Its capabilities include:. Both are separate packages. After the initial installation, you can update your system to the latest versions available with:. This more complex example adds a collection, for the engine XeTeX, from a local directory:. In the above, we generated new formats for XeTeX. Also, have a look at tlaunch , described in section 4.

I use the names of subdirectories as the label prefix for easy referencing. The main file also goes into subdirectory at the same level as other subdirectories. So it looks something like this:. Last edited by T3. Let me add something. I think it's a bad practice. Anyway, I suppose everyone will have their own preferences in that respect. Re: Including tex files Post by T3. I'm sure that you are aware of this detail but some Windows users might not be.

Most people launch latex compilation from their text editor and not directly from the command line. In that case this editor has to be started from the process making the changes to the environment or it won't see those changes.

To tell you the truth I don't like any of the solutions discussed in this thread. Having input-like command that would resolve paths relative to the file containing the command would be the best, IMO. Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 7 months ago. Active 6 months ago. Viewed 82 times. Remark: Put this Question on tex. Edit: Fixed a spelling mistake.

Improve this question. Greer Greer 4 4 bronze badges. Don't you want : so you won't overwrite the previous content? I have now read so many things on this, I cant remember,wether to use ; or : on windows. However, it doesnt effect my current problem, so i will tackle it afterwards. Thanks for reading my question — Greer.

Ask Question. Asked 2 years, 6 months ago. Active 2 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 1k times. Improve this question. Louis Wasserman Louis Wasserman 5 5 bronze badges. DavidCarlisle is there a good way to set that variable? If you want to set the environment variable rather then a miktex config then as on linux you just need to do whatever you do to set the environment, typically the control panel, but i don't use miktex, Ulrike's suggestion of a miktex specific option may be easier to set up.

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