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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label sysunix</title>
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<h3>Unix and GNU Linux systems</h3>
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Note that Mac OS/X, though it is also a Unix-based system, has
different options; users should refer to the information in
<a href="FAQ-sysmac.html">Mac systems</a>.
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<p/>The TeX distribution of choice, for Unix systems (including
GNU/Linux and most other free Unix-like systems) is TeX Live,
which is distributed as part of the <a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX collection</a>.
<p/>TeX Live may also be installed “over the network”; a network
installer is provided, and once you have a system (whether network- or
offline-installed) a manager (<i>tlmgr</i>) can both keep your
installation up-to-date and add packages you didn’t install at first.
<p/>TeX Live may be run with no installation at all; the web page
<a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/portable.html">TeX Live portable usage</a>
describes the options for installing TeX Live on a memory stick for
use on another computer, or for using the TeX Live DVD with
no installation at all.
<p/>TeX-gpc is a “back-to-basics” distribution of TeX utilities,
<em>only</em> (unlike TeX Live, no ‘tailored’ package bundles are
provided). It is distributed as source, and compiles with GNU
Pascal, thereby coming as close as you’re likely to get to Knuth’s original
distribution. It is known to work well, but the omission of e-TeX
and PDFTeX will rule it out of many users’ choices.
<p/>A free version of the commercial
<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">VTeX extended TeX system</a> is available for
use under Linux. VTeX, among other things, specialises in direct
production of PDF from (La)TeX input. Sadly, it’s no longer
supported, and the ready-built images are made for use with a rather
ancient Linux kernel.
<p/>Finally, the developer of MiKTeX has released a port of the
PDFTeX executable from of that excellent (Windows) system for use
on Linux; get it via
<a href="http://miktex.org/unx/">the MiKTeX site</a>. The MiKTeX
package manager (<i>mpm</i>), for Linux, is also available from
the same place.
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<dt><tt><i>tex-gpc</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/unix/tex-gpc.zip">systems/unix/tex-gpc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/unix/tex-gpc/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tex-gpc.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>texlive</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive">systems/texlive</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/texlive.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>texlive installer (Unix)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz">systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz</a>
<dt><tt><i>vtex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/linux.zip">systems/vtex/linux</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/linux/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/vtex-free.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>vtex required common files</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/common.zip">systems/vtex/common</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/common/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=sysunix">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=sysunix</a>
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