The TeX collection

If you don’t have access to the Internet, there are obvious attractions to TeX collections on a disc. Even those with net access will find large quantities of TeX-related files to hand a great convenience.

The TeX collection provides this, together with ready-to-run TeX systems for various architectures. Contents of the collection are:

A fair number of national TeX User Groups, as well as TUG, distribute copies to their members at no extra charge. Some user groups are also able to sell additional copies: contact your local user group or TUG.

You may also download disc images from CTAN; the installation disc, ProTeXt and MacTeX are all separately available. Beware: they are all pretty large downloads.

More details of the collection are available from its own web page on the TUG site.

MacTeX
systems/mac/mactex/
ProTeXt
systems/win32/protext/
TeXlive install image
systems/texlive/

This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=CD