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<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. You cannot install Unix
binaries on Windows but vice versa.
<h2>The schemes menu (<tt><S></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 — TeX macro files, Metafont font
families, and so on — consists of several packages.
<p>
More than one collection can be selected/deselected at the same time.
<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.
<p>
More than one collection can be selected/deselected at the same time.
<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
plocation of the binaries.
<p>
The platform independent files are stored in a directory tree in
<tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt>. There are also extra directories for performing
administrative tasks like change of configuration and languages. They
default to <tt>TEXDIR/texmf-var</tt> and <tt>TEXDIR/texmf-config</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>use letter size instead of a4 by default</h3>
You can choose letter as the default paper size for some programs.
<h3>create all format files</h3>
If this option is set, format files are created for system-wide use
by the installer. Otherwise they are will be created automatically
when needed.
<p>
In the latter case format files are stored in user's directory trees
and in some cases have to be re-created when new packages are
installed.
<h3>install doc or source trees</h3>
Normally all packages are installed with the source and 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
<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:
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<li> install them in <i>standard places</i> that are searched for these files
<li> change your search paths to include the new directories
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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>).
<h2>Install for running from DVD (<tt><V></tt>)</h2>
This option sets up a minimal setup which allows TeX Live to
be run directly from the DVD.
<p>
A few directories on the hard disk have to be created for files
created by the TeX system itsef and for modified configuration files.
Please change <tt>TEXDIRW</tt> first in the directories menu <tt><D></tt>.
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