TECHNICAL NOTES: * About TLPM TLPM (TeX Live Package Manager) helps to search, trace dependencies, and install TeX Live packages. It works with TeX Live 2004, 2005, 2006/07 editions. Initially, TLPM was just my private Perl script for controlling the mass of TeX Live packages repository. Since there were no win-installer on TeX Live 2004, TLPM became a rescue solution. Starting from version 2.11, TLPM works, with some restrictions, under Unix shells as well. All the configuration is beyond the scope of TLPM functionality. TLPM doesn't perform any post-installation actions such as setting of environment variables, building formats or updating fontmap files. All those actions are accomplished by a pretty nice TLPMGUI front-end written by Tomek \{}Luczak. Since there is no (not yet) consistent versioning system within TeX Live distribution, TLPM does NOT support upgrades or downgrades, neither of packages, nor of the entire distribution. TLPM fully relies on the information retrieved from the TPM files (actually from text files stored in the 'texmf/lists' directory). If you don't trust TPMs, do NOT trust TLPM either! * Usage TLPM tries to detect the CD/DVD drive with TeX Live disk automagically (this heuristic is performed not performed on Unix shells). If the magic fails, TLPM prompts to provide a mounting point, unless one use the '--source' command-line option or the 'tl_source' environment variable, which might be useful while installing TeX Live from local hard drive resources. The target installation directory can be specified with the '--directory' command-line option or the 'tl_target' environment variable. If both are missing, one is prompted for the target directory during runtime (interactive mode) or it is initialized to current directory (batch mode). TLPM can be run in batch mode. In such a case, each line of the batch file is treated as a TLPM command, unless empty or starts with the '%' or '#' characters. The range of commands and options available in batch mode is the same as in the interactive mode. Mentioned TLPMGUI program communicates with TLPM via batches. The history of installed and uninstalled packages is saved in the tlpm.log file stored in the TeX Live target directory. TLPM does not reuse this file and reads the current installation state from disk in each run. TLPM is self documented -- 'help []' informs about usage details. * Command line TLPM respects quotations (both double quotes and single quotes) used in command line. Quotation is necessary while using path names with spaces (strongly not recommended!) or other strange characters that may conflict with the command syntax. If so, please quote the entire phrase. Whenever analyzing the command, TLPM also resolves environment variables expressed as '%variable%' or '$variable'. To ensure possibly similar behaviour for different platforms, TLPM interprets all the command line (including '>file' and '|stream' redirection) on its own. Hence, some shell specific expansion may not work as normally expected. * License I have done my best to make TLPM functional and reliable, but can NOT warrant anything. If you like TLPM, feel free to redistribute it without any restrictions. TLPM is in Public Domain. * Thanks Big THANK YOU to Jolanta Szelaty\n{}ska, Staszek Wawrykiewicz, Tomek \L{}uczak, Jerzy Ludwichowski and all other nice souls for all their help. * Bugs Bugs reports and comments are welcome (tlpmgui@gust.org.pl) * History 23.02.2005, 1.00 -- first beta release 06.04.2005, 1.01 -- bugfix; 'inst' function couldn't be executed twice because of incorrect error code returned 06.05.2005, 1.02 -- bugfix; some of messages redirected to files were stored in texmf/lists instead of the runtime directory 15.09.2005, 1.03 -- TLPM seems to work fine with TL2005; changed messages. 30.09.2005, 1.04 -- tiny changes in CD detection routine 05.10.2005, 2.00 -- general rework; mostly in messaging system and installation; now TLPM supports also TeX Live DVD (slooow...) 06.10.2005, 2.01 -- again, changes in CD/DVD detection routine because of removing tlpm(gui) stuff from TL root directory 08.10.2005, 2.02 -- bugfix; while removing standalone packages, uninstall routine was performed twice 10.10.2005, 2.03 -- bugfix; now paths are internally separated by `\' ($chr_dirsep) because of win98 archeology 11.10.2005, 2.04 -- debug version made to fix hanging under win98 12.10.2005, 2.05 -- yet another temporary debug version 13.10.2005, 2.06 -- experimental progress info while installing from DVD 14.10.2005, 2.07 -- progress info while installing from CD and DVD and --quiet option for 'inst' command 25.10.2005, 2.08 -- give up to with hanging on DVD installation under Win98; just note added 26.10.2005, 2.09 -- yet another slight correction 27.10.2005, 2.10 -- Karl confirmed that 'texlive2005' directory need no longer to be checked 19.03.2006, 2.11 -- some experimental rework; allows to extract binaries for other platforms, can work under Linux, prompts for source drive or mounting point unless found automatically 23.04.2006, 2.12 -- added installation from DVD support for Linux; still slow, as in Windows 08.05.2006, 2.13 -- bugfix; changes 2.12 spoil installation from cd 04.06.2006, 2.14 -- code commented 07.01.2007, 2.15 -- help update for TeX Live 2006/07 edition 08.01.2007, 2.16 -- bugfix; typing 'version' command was causing a program crash; there is no such a command available anymore; program version is displayed in the banner and command prompt 09.01.2007, 2.17 -- code comments, readme changes * Known issues 1. Installation from DVD is much slower than from CD. Sorry... 2. Under Windows; if there are two CD drives (ie. 'E:\' and 'F:\') and TeX Live disk is in the second one, system may throw 'Insert CD to E:\' message and block the program. Can't help that... Put the CD into 'F:\' instead, use '--source' option or 'tl_source' environment variable. 3. While sending the command output to pipe (ie. 'list | grep' or 'incl | more'), by design, no summary is displayed. The summary might be irrelevant if affected by grep or something. 4. While running via tlpmgui with DVD, installation (xcopy) hangs on Win98. Any ideas? 5. While installing from DVD, strange message 'Cannot perform INPAGE operation'. Hardly reproducable... * Hope for the future 0. New TL package model -> versioning system -> upgrading -> via net installation 1. Shell-specific cmd-line expansion (probably I'll give up cmdline parsing on my own) 2. More robust and platform independent copying mechanism (especially important for DVD) ################################################################################ COMMANDS IN DETAILS ################################################################################ ##################################### tlpm ##################################### USAGE: tlpm [platforms] [-s ] [-d ] [-b ] DESCRIPTION: TLPM help searching for, installing and uninstalling TeX Live packages. COMMANDS: list list packages or files with names matching the given phrase incl list packages or files included in the given bundle blng show to which bundle the given package or file belongs inst install a package in specified target directory (just extract) uninst uninstall a package from specified target directory check check installation dependencies and consistency info show package info help show this help or the given command description cmd execute a system command quit leave the program Type 'help ' for details. OPTIONS: -s --source set default TeX Live source path -d --directory set default TeX Live target path -b --batch enter batch mode -h --help display this help and quit -H --Help display the entire readme and quit -v --version display the version info and quit EXAMPLES: % start in interactive mode tlpm % start in batch mode reading commands from 'file.lst' tlpm -b file.lst % set TeX Live target directory (do not prompt during runtime) tlpm -d /usr/share/TeX tlpm -d D:\TeX % set TeX Live source and target (current directory) tlpm -s /mnt/cd -d . tlpm -s E:\ -d . % respect binary packages for listed platforms (depends on TeX Live naming convention) tlpm win32 i386-linux -s /mnt/cd tlpm win32 i386-linux -s E:\ % execute just one TLPM and quit echo | tlpm ##################################### list ##################################### USAGE: list [-pfe] [] [-d ] DESCRIPTION: Lists files or packages from TeX Live CD/DVD or installation directory. OPTIONS: -p --packages search for packages matching (default) -f --files search for files matching -e --expression treat as a Perl regular expression (regex) -d --directory list packages or files installed in the directory EXAMPLES: % display a list of all packages available on TeX Live CD/DVD list % the same via a pager list -p * | more % output all PFB file names on the CD/DVD into font.log list -f *.pfb >font.log % the same, but matching regex instead of a mask list -fe ^.*\.pfb>font.log % list package collections installed in list coll* -d /usr/share/TeX list coll* -d D:\TeX % the same, assuming that the target directory has already been specified list coll* -d % yet one more alternative via grep list -d | grep coll ##################################### incl ##################################### USAGE: incl [-pferj] [] DESCRIPTION: Displays a list of requirements and contents. OPTIONS: -p --packages show required packages matching (default) -f --files show included files matching -e --expression treat as a Perl regex -r --recurse follow dependencies recursively (default) -j --justone do not recurse EXAMPLES: % display all packages required by collection-basic (via pager) incl collection-basic | more % display packages directly required by the collection-basic incl collection-basic -j % write all TFM files included in the collection-basic to tfms.lst incl collection-basic -f *.tfm > tfms.lst % display a list of collections included in the GUST scheme incl scheme-gust.scheme -p coll ##################################### blng ##################################### USAGE: blng [-pf] DESCRIPTION: Shows parent bundle(s) of a package or file given by (not ). OPTIONS: -p --package treat as a package (default) -f --file treat as a file EXAMPLES: % show bundles that include collection-context blng collection-context % show the package that contains the 'manfnt.tfm' file blng -f manfnt.tfm ##################################### inst ##################################### USAGE: inst [-rjou] [-d ] DESCRIPTION: Install in the specified target directory. By default, already installed packages are skipped. OPTIONS: -r --recurse follow dependencies recursively (default) -j --justone do not recurse -o --overwrite reinstall existing packages -u --update refresh older, create missing files (implies --overwrite) -d --directory install the packages in directory -q --quiet disable progress info EXAMPLES: % install entire collection-basic in inst collection-basic -d /usr/share/TeX inst collection-basic -d D:\TeX % reinstall collection-basic and prompt for the target directory (if not given already) inst collection-basic -o % just update the ComputerModern fonts package inst cm -ju #################################### uninst #################################### USAGE: uninst [-rjiI] [-d ] DESCRIPTION: Uninstalls from the specified target directory. OPTIONS: -r --recurse follow dependencies recursively (default) -j --justone do not recurse -i --ignore ignore dependencies -I --Ignore ignore dependencies indeed -d --directory uninstall packages from directory EXAMPLES: % remove the LaTeX collection with all components, unless required by other packages uninst collection-latex % force removal of the LaTeX collection but leave shared packages untouched uninst collection-latex -i % force removal of the LaTeX collection and all its components, even if shared (dangerous) uninst collection-latex -I % remove just the 'ltxmisc' package from uninst ltxmisc -j -d /ust/share/TeX uninst ltxmisc -j -d D:\TeX #################################### check #################################### USAGE: check [-pf][-d ] DESCRIPTION: Check installation dependencies and consistency. OPTIONS: -p --packages check packages (default) -f --files check files -d --directory check given directory EXAMPLES: % display packages missing from check -d /usr/share/TeX check -d D:\TeX % almost the same (prompt for directory, if not specified already) check % display files that should exist but can not be found check -f ##################################### help ##################################### USAGE: help [] DESCRIPTION: Displays general help or usage details for a given command. OPTIONS: -H --Help display the entire readme EXAMPLES: % display general help (via pager) help | more % tell me more about the 'inst' command help inst % exactly the same inst --help ##################################### info ##################################### USAGE: info DESCRIPTION: Displays the information available for a given package. EXAMPLES: % tell me something about ConTeXt info context ##################################### cmd ##################################### USAGE: cmd DESCRIPTION: Executes a system command without exiting the TLPM session. EXAMPLES: % mount TeX Live source cmd mount /dev/cd /mnt/cd % test TeX cmd tex \input story \end % clear screen cmd clear ##################################### quit ##################################### USAGE: quit DESCRIPTION: Leaves the program. EXAMPLES: % say goodbye quit