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I am running LaTeX on a Linux VM. I am running a Xubuntu and have very little space to use. I managed to install some of the latex packages without documentation.

Currently I am missing fullpage amongst others.

I am looking to install texlive-latex-extra but it is asking for 200 MB of space. I am good with using latex, so I can live without the documentation.

Is there a way to do this in apt-get ?

RRS

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The Apt-based packages are big, no way around it. If you are proficient enough a user of LaTeX, you probably know which packages you need to use well enough; so I'd install them (and only them) from CTAN. Then, if space gets really tight (e.g., the oberdiek bundle is about 30 MB, I think), you can also delete the documentation as you need. Installing .tds.zip packaged files is super-easy, by the way. – jon Aug 8 '12 at 18:39

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In short, no. The best solution here is to download the packages you really need, and get rid of the documentation. This will ensure that you use the minimal space, and do not download unneeded packages.

An interesting complement to this question would be: what is the minimal set of packages not in the default Ubuntu texlive that you can't live without?

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