On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I'm quite happy to make them myself if you like. When I say they will
Go ahead, here is the original html. And thanks for that.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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WRITTLE (vb.)
Of a steel ball, to settle into a hole.
--- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff
Title: Debian support - TeX Live - TeX Users Group
(Status: 2012-01-19, np&mp)
Status of packages in Debian:
oldstable: TeX Live 2007
stable: TeX Live 2009
testing and unstable: TeX Live 2009
Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.4 LTS and up have TL 2009. Prior versions have TL 2007.
Here you can find information on the Debian packaging of the TeX live system, but also on how to install a "vanilla" TeX Live on your Debian system.
Please send comments and suggestions to the Debian TeX Task Force: debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org, (or if you think that is related to an genuine TeX live problem, to the tex-live mailing list).
Please use the Debian Bug Tracking System for reporting bugs of the packages.
For the changes since the last version please see the website of the package QA tracking system texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-extra, texlive-lang, texlive-doc.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please contact the Debian TeX Task Force at debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org. You can take a look at the svn repository, either on the web or via svn://svn.debian.org/debian-tex/texlive2009 (both for TeX Live 2009, for TeX Live 2007 use texlive-new).
We recommend using the distribution-provided packages, but if you like playing around we provide instructions for installing your own vanilla TeX Live on your Debian system.
The Debian TeX Task Force has written two documents on TeX on Debian, available in the tex-common package.
For those not using Debian we provide these pages here, too:
Developers' Documentation: Debian TeX Policy
Sysadmins'/Users' Documentation: TeX on Debian
Talk at the EuroBachoTeX 2007: TeX (Live) on Debian
Installation is easy: Just call
apt-get update apt-get install texliveWhich will bring you: texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-latex-base, texlive-base. You can go on and install additional packages (like texlive-latex-extra) and additional languages (like texlive-lang-german) and additional documentation (like texlive-doc-en).
If you want to have a system closely mirroring a TeX Live DVD, you can install the texlive-full packages, which pulls in all packages.
apt-get install texlive-full
If you need or want to use the upstream TeX Live (with its new package manager, tlmgr) on your Debian system, you need to install it yourself (quick install instructions). Here is some advice in order for your local TeX Live installation to work fine with your Debian system.
In order to tell APT about your locally installed TeX Live, you should build a dummy package using equivs. Here is a mini-howto.
$ aptitude install equivs # as root
mkdir /tmp/tl-equivs && cd /tmp/tl-equivs
equivs-control texlive-local
# edit texlive-local (see below)
$ equivs-build texlive-local
$ dpkg -i texlive-local_2009-1_all.deb # as root
At the step "edit texlive-local", you should change some information in the file, mainly the list of the packages provided by your local TeX Live installation. If you installed scheme-full except collection-texinfo as recommended, the file should look like this example.
I would like to thank Frank Küster, Sebastian Rahtz and Karl Berry for supporting me in all the work!
That's it, enjoy it!