glfs/pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%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 "deb47f94f74989101eefe61a54eda8c8">
<!ENTITY tl-installer-date "20160622"> <!-- in the directory name -->
<!ENTITY tl-installer-size "3.2 MB">
<!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize "4.7 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>
&lfs79_checked;&gcc6_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 linkend="gs"/> is dynamically loaded by dvisvgm, which is used by
<application>asy</application>.
</para>
<para role="recommended">
<xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/> and
<xref 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 linkend="x-window-system"/>
(for PDF files, this is to support a PDF viewer of your choice, for example
<xref 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 by <application>asy</application>
and also for xindy.run which is used by <application>xindy</application>
</para>
<para role="recommended">
The binary versions of <application>asy</application> needs
<xref linkend="glu"/>, <xref linkend="freeglut"/>. and <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz">libreadline-5.2</ulink>
: this only requires <filename>libreadline.so.5.2</filename> which can be
manually copied from the <filename class="directory">lib/</filename>
directory after running <command>configure</command> and <command>make</command>
and then symlinked as <filename>libreadline.so.5</filename>.
</para>
<para>
As always with contributed binary software, it is possible that the required
dependencies may change when the installer is updated.
</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.
</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 4.2 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>