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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html b/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..84ee894df92 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +<!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><I></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><></tt> themselves. +<p> +We will now consider each menu item in more detail: + +<h2>The binary systems menu (<tt><B></tt>)</h2> + +The systems menu allows you to select and deselect +the binary packages for various different platforms. + +<h2>The schemes menu (<tt><C></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><C></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><L></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><D></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><O></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> |