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The TeX Live installer

+This is the installation program of the TeX Live distribution. +

+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 <I> (start installation). +

+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 <> themselves. +

+We will now consider each menu item in more detail: + +

The binary systems menu (<B>)

+ +The systems menu allows you to select and deselect +the binary packages for various different platforms. + +

The schemes menu (<C>)

+ +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. + +

The collections menu (<C>)

+ +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. + +

The language collections menu (<L>)

+ +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. + +

The directories menu (<D>)

+ +The TeX Live distribution will be installed in a single directory tree +(TEXDIR). 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. +

+The platform independent files are stored in a directory tree in +TEXDIR/texmf. 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 TEXDIR/texmf-var. +

+This system allows you to mount your TEXDIR/texmf tree read-only. + +

The options menu (<O>)

+ +The options are not applicable to all installations. Set them as +appropriate for yours. +

alternate fonts directory

+ +You can choose an alternate directory for automatically generated fonts; +the default is TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts +

+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. + +

symlinks in standard directories (UNIX only)

+ +You can make the binaries, man pages, and info files available on your +system in either (or both) of two ways: +
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  1. install them in standard places that are searched for these files +
  2. change your search paths to include the new directories +
+If you select the symlinks 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 standard places are +not shared, you need to create the symbolic links on each client, too +(or use method 2 on your clients). +

+If you do not use the symlinks option, you probably need to set up +your search paths (PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH). + +

do not install doc or source trees

+ +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 + + -- cgit v1.2.3