On Do, 19 Jan 2012, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Great; can you send me the raw version again, and I'll make one more
> pass to improve the English.
Here it is.
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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Title: Debian support - TeX Live - TeX Users Group
(Status: 2012-01-20, np&mp&rt)
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 TeX Live packages, but if you want or need vanilla TeX Live, for example to get the latest version or to use the tlmgr package manager, we provide instructions to integrate it with Debian.
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
First, install vanilla TeX Live. To integrate with Debian, it should be installed system-wide as root. Then, perform the following steps:
$ 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
$ sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2011-1_all.deb
At the step "edit texlive-local", edit the Maintainer field and the list of the packages provided by your local TeX Live installation as appropriate. 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!