User:Ms/TeX Live Manual Installation

This is a manual to install Tex Live in home directory for single user.

For a thorough installation instruction, you can view it at,

Package Requirements

wget
perl-tk (for GUI installation)

Warning: GUI installation is not recommended, because in installation version install-tl-20150830 some directories is not set correctly after installation.

Installation

This is assuming that,

we will install Tex Live in $HOME/texlive,
using zsh as shell.

Step by step installation instruction,

Set variable for Tex Live installation directory,

$ export TEXLIVE=$HOME/texlive

Save Tex Live installation directory to shell script,

$ export SHELL_ENV=$HOME/.zshenv
$ echo "TEXLIVE=$HOME/texlive" >> $SHELL_ENV

If you use other shell (e.g. bash) replace ".zshenv" with your shell environment script.

Download network installer,

$ wget -c http://ossm.utm.my/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

Extract the installer,

$ tar zxvf install-tl-unx.tar.gz

Change directory to extracted file,

$ cd install-tl-[date]

Replace [date] with installer version.

Set texlive installation directory,

$ export TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/texlive

Execute installer,

$ ./install-pl

To install with GUI, add "-gui" to parameter.

Follow the instruction and customize your installer.

Set portable installation.

Press "I" for installing portable installation.

Post Installation

Add Tex Live bin, man, and info path to local environment.

$ echo "export PATH=$TEXLIVE/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH" >> $SHELL_ENV
$ echo "export MANPATH=$TEXLIVE/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH" >> $SHELL_ENV
$ echo "export INFOPATH=$TEXLIVE/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH" >> $SHELL_ENV

Relogin or open new terminal to activate new PATH.

Now, you can install additional Tex Live packages using tlmgr.

For example, to install latex,

$ tlmgr install latex-bin

and additional recommended packages,

$ tlmgr install amsmath babel carlisle ec geometry graphics hyperref lm  marvosym oberdiek parskip pdftex-def url