diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent index dfcf50a0d8..ab03b4d93d 100644 --- a/general.ent +++ b/general.ent @@ -881,4 +881,7 @@ export -f as_root + + diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml index cc1c752073..c042f58835 100644 --- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml +++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ February 13th, 2014 + + [ken] - move the TeX Live binary installer, together with its + runtime dependencies and details of setting up PATHs, to a separate + page. + [fernando] - Update to ImageMagick-6.8.8-5. Fixes #4683. diff --git a/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml b/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml index 6aea9c712d..6966d4a0fc 100644 --- a/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml +++ b/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml @@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ %general-entities; - - - @@ -31,13 +28,11 @@ - Introduction to TeX Live + Introduction to TeX Live from source - The TeX Live 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. + A binary version of the TeX Live package + is installed at . Here, we use that to rebuild + the compiled programs from source. &lfs74_checked; @@ -63,35 +58,34 @@ - Additional Downloads - - - The TeX Live installer: - - - TeX Live Dependencies - Recommended (to build from source) + Recommended + (for asy), + , + + + The source ships with its own versions of many libraries, and will use them unless it is forced to use the system - versions. - , + versions. The following are recommended so that the system version + will be used: , , , , (linked to graphite2), , - , - + - - Optional (to build from source) + Optional - The source ships with its own versions of these libraries, which are either + FFTW can be used by asy. + + + The source ships with its own versions of several libraries which are either not under active development, or only used for limited functionality. If you install these, as with some other optional dependencies in this book you will need to tell configure to use the system versions. @@ -102,10 +96,10 @@ TECkit - Runtime dependencies if building from source + Runtime dependencies - not yet adequate to rebuild this), - for ep2pdftk. + Some (re-installed) scripts will use + and is used by epspdftk. User Notes: @@ -116,68 +110,16 @@ Installation of TeX Live - The TeX Live 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 /opt/texlive. - - First, unpack the installer and change into the installer's - directory, install-tl-<CCYYMMDD>. - This directory name changes frequently when the installer is updated, - so replace <CCYYMMDD> by the correct directory name. - -tar -xf install-tl-unx.tar.gz && -cd install-tl-<CCYYMMDD> - - The distribution binaries installed below use static linking - for internal TeX Live libraries. Additional - libraries 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 are installed. - - Now, as the root - user: - -TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive ./install-tl - - This command is interactive and allows selection or modification of - platform, packages, directories, and other options. The full installation - scheme will require about 3.5 gigabytes of disk space. The time to complete - the download will depend on your internet connection speed and the - number of packages selected. - - After the package download is complete, the next step is to make sure - that the system can properly find the files. If you set up your login - scripts as recommended in , update - the needed paths by appending to the extrapaths.sh script. - The programs are always installed in an <ARCH>-linux subdirectory. If - you are not using x86_64, always change that to your - actual installation location. - -cat >> /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh << "EOF" -pathappend /usr/share/man MANPATH -pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man MANPATH -pathappend /usr/share/info INFOPATH -pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info INFOPATH -pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/x86_64-linux -EOF - - The standard MANPATH and INFOPATH path are specified above to - ensure they are included. If they are already set in the boot script - procedure, the pathappend function will ensure duplicates are - removed, so including them here will do no harm. - - The new paths can be immediately activated by running source - /etc/profile. - - At this point the binary installation is complete. + These instructions will overwrite the corresponding files from the + binary installer. As with the installer, change x86_64-linux to whatever + matches your architecture. Please note that installing from source will recompile the binary programs and recreate the man and info files. It will also overwrite the scripts - some of these may be older versions than those from the newer installer. It will not recreate any of the following: the more than 200 symlinks in the - <ARCH>-linux directory (some are alternate names, many are pointers to + x86_64-linux directory (some are alternate names, many are pointers to the scripts), html files, PDF files, licenses, README files, two config files (texmf.cnf and texmfcnf.lua), nor the many package and font files in @@ -190,12 +132,6 @@ EOF asy and xindy which were installed by the binary installer. - If building from - source is desired, continue as a normal user. Extract the source package as - usual. Again, change x86_64-linux to whatever matches your architecture. - The developers do not recommend building in the source directory, so enter - the following commands: - mkdir texlive-build && cd texlive-build && diff --git a/pst/typesetting/typesetting.xml b/pst/typesetting/typesetting.xml index 58bbba14a1..724151712c 100644 --- a/pst/typesetting/typesetting.xml +++ b/pst/typesetting/typesetting.xml @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ $Date$ This chapter includes applications that create output equivalent to typesetting. +