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− | * A skeleton of a local texmf tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf: this directory is writable for members of the group tex. Users of TeXLive 2007 should move /opt/texlive/texmf-local accordingly or change the variable $TEXMFLOCAL in texmf.cnf | + | * A skeleton of a local texmf tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf: this directory is writable for members of the group tex. Users of TeXLive 2007 should move /opt/texlive/texmf-local accordingly or change the variable $TEXMFLOCAL in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf |
= List of all texlive-* packages = | = List of all texlive-* packages = |
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Contents
Introduction
NEW: as of 12 Sept. 2008, TeXLive packages are available in extra for both arches, hence replacing the obsolete tetex. By installing the packages texlive-core (54MB) and its dependency texlive-bin (15MB), you will have a very solid and bleeding-edge typesetting system at your disposal!
Important information
- The installation now goes to /usr instead of /opt/texlive. Upon upgrading from the 2007 packages, you might encounter some error messages about binaries not found under /opt/texlive/bin: you can safely ignore them.
- Instead of upgrading, we strongly suggest you simply remove all your old texlive packages first, and then do a clean install under /usr.
- For reasons of space and because life is too short, we don't provide the documentation. You can consult it online at http://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/doc.html or on CTAN. Documentation packages might soon be available on [community] though.
- TeXLive (upstream) now provides a tool for incremental updates of CTAN packages. On that basis, we also plan to update our packages on a regular basis (we have written tools that almost automate that task).
- Some tools and utilities included in TeX Live rely on ghostscript, perl, and ruby.
- For help and information about TeXLive see: http://tug.org/texlive/doc.html and http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
- System-wide configuration files are under /usr/share/texmf-config. User-specific ones should be put under ~/.texlive/texmf-config. $TEXMFHOME is ~/texmf and $TEXMFVAR is ~/.texlive/texmf-var.
- A skeleton of a local texmf tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf: this directory is writable for members of the group tex. Users of TeXLive 2007 should move /opt/texlive/texmf-local accordingly or change the variable $TEXMFLOCAL in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
List of all texlive-* packages
The texlive packages are arranged into to groups: texlive-most and texlive-lang (NB: the groups texlive-most-doc and texlive-lang-doc are currently not provided but might be re-added to community soon).
The essential package texlive-core contains the basic texmf-dist tree, while texlive-bin contains the binaries, libraries, and the texmf tree. texlive-core is based on the “medium” install scheme of the upstream distribution. All other packages are based on the eponymous collections in TeXLive. The following links bring to a list of the CTAN packages contained in each Arch package.
Group texlive-most
- texlive-bin
- texlive-core
- texlive-bibtexextra
- texlive-fontsextra
- texlive-formatsextra
- texlive-games
- texlive-genericextra
- texlive-htmlxml
- texlive-humanities
- texlive-latex3
- texlive-latexextra
- texlive-music
- texlive-pictures
- texlive-plainextra
- texlive-pstricks
- texlive-publishers
- texlive-science
NB: texlive-omega is no longer provided, and the omega and aleph binaries are not included in texlive-bin. They are unmaintained and obsolete. All files that depend on omega should have been removed. (Note that omega/aleph are still part of the official TeXLive DVD, but will probably disappear next year.)
Group texlive-lang
NB: The latter replaces and provides texlive-lang{african, arab, armenian, croatian, hebrew, indic, mongolian, tibetan, vietnamese}.
Alternative: TeXLive network install
See http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-140003
Alternative: TeX Live with loop-mounted DVD ISO
See TeXLive_from_iso (obsolete?)
See Also
For frequently asked qustions about TeX, TeXLive, and how it is packaged on arch, see the TeXLive FAQ.