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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
+<title>The TeX Live installer</title>
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
+<!-- **** Still from TL-2007, needs to be updated **** -->
+<h1>The TeX Live installer</h1>
+This is the installation program of the TeX Live distribution.
+<p>
+The installation procedure is simple: just go through the
+menus until you are happy with the way all options are set up,
+and then do <tt>&lt;I&gt;</tt> (start installation).
+<p>
+To select a menu item (a letter or a number marked with brackets)
+just enter the corresponding letter or number and press return
+(the letters are case insensitive except when collections
+are being selected). Do not enter the
+angle brackets <tt>&lt;&gt;</tt> themselves.
+<p>
+We will now consider each menu item in more detail:
+
+<h2>The binary systems menu (<tt>&lt;B&gt;</tt>)</h2>
+
+The systems menu allows you to select and deselect
+the binary packages for various different platforms.
+
+<h2>The schemes menu (<tt>&lt;C&gt;</tt>)</h2>
+
+You can choose from a number of different installation
+schemes for TeX Live. Selecting one of these selects
+some collections in the Collections and Languages lists.
+which you can subsequently modify.
+
+<h2>The collections menu (<tt>&lt;C&gt;</tt>)</h2>
+
+The collections menu allows you to select and deselect standard
+collections. Each collection &emdash; TeX macro files, Metafont font
+families, and so on &emdash; consists of several packages.
+
+<h2>The language collections menu (<tt>&lt;L&gt;</tt>)</h2>
+
+The language collections menu allows you to select and deselect
+language support collections. Each collection consists of several
+packages, which provide features like hyphenation files and fonts.
+
+<h2>The directories menu (<tt>&lt;D&gt;</tt>)</h2>
+
+The TeX Live distribution will be installed in a single directory tree
+(<tt>TEXDIR</tt>). You may choose any directory you like
+since there are no absolute paths compiled into the binaries. Instead,
+the Kpathsea library selfdir feature ensures that all
+paths are relative to the location of the binaries.
+<p>
+The platform independent files are stored in a directory tree in
+<tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt>. There is also an extra directory for performing
+administrative tasks like change of configuration and languages. This
+is where all format files are stored. It defaults to <tt>TEXDIR/texmf-var</tt>.
+<p>
+This system allows you to mount your <tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt> tree read-only.
+
+<h2>The options menu (<tt>&lt;O&gt;</tt>)</h2>
+
+The options are not applicable to all installations. Set them as
+appropriate for yours.
+<h3>alternate fonts directory</h3>
+
+You can choose an alternate directory for automatically generated fonts;
+the default is <tt>TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts</tt>
+<p>
+One disadvantage may be that new fonts are not shared. I.e., if you
+set this to /tmp, and users on two different machines need the same
+font, it will be built twice, once on each machine.
+
+<h3>symlinks in standard directories (UNIX only)</h3>
+
+You can make the binaries, man pages, and info files available on your
+system in either (or both) of two ways:
+<ol>
+ <li> install them in <i>standard places</i> that are searched for these files
+ <li> change your search paths to include the new directories
+</ol>
+If you select the <i>symlinks</i> option, symbolic links will be installed in
+the directories you choose. Note that if you share the TeX Live installation
+accross several machines across NFS and if the chosen <i>standard places</i> are
+not shared, you need to create the symbolic links on each client, too
+(or use method 2 on your clients).
+<p>
+If you do not use the <i>symlinks</i> option, you probably need to set up
+your search paths (<tt>PATH</tt>, <tt>MANPATH</tt>, <tt>INFOPATH</tt>).
+
+<h3>do not install doc or source trees</h3>
+
+These options are not recommended, but you can use them to save space.
+Normally all packages are installed with the source and/or documentation,
+but these are not needed to actually run the software. If you
+are installing a system for other people, it would be unfriendly to
+select these options; if you know what you are doing and need a
+minimal disk footprint, go ahead
+</body>
+</html>