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Written by Svend

Wednesday, 09 January 2013 17:43

The following document contains installation instructions for TeX Live when using a Linux distribution. It was tested with TeX Live 2012 on Fedora Linux.

Of course, use this instruction list carefully, knowing what you enter.

su
(1) Password: (Enter password)
cd Desktop
mkdir texlive
cd texlive
wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
tar xf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
cd install-tl-20130105 (or a newer version)
./install-tl
O
L
Choose the following:
(1) New value for binary directory [/usr/local/bin]: /usr/bin
(Type /usr/bin.)
(2) New value for man directory [/usr/man]:
(Do not type anything.)
(3) New value for info directory [/usr/info]:
(Do not type anything.)
R
I
Let it download and install the packages. (When this is done, TeX Live is installed.)
Remove the temporary directory:
(1) rm -rf /home/username/Desktop/texlive

Update TeX Live via the following command:

su
(1) Password: (Enter password)
tlmgr update ––all ––self

Further information and installation instructions are available on the TeX Live website.

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