TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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Using MiKTeX and TeX Live on the same computer?
Is there anything I should be aware of if I want to install MiKTeX and TeX Live on the same computer? Are there any problems, any incompatabilities? Is it even possible? I imagine there could be some ...
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TeX Live manager 2011 database corruption?
TeX Live 2011, up to date, on Windows XP. Example:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
A
\end{document}
LuaTeX first error:
LaTeX Warning: You have requested, ...
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Using texliveonfly in TeXLive 2011
I test texliveonfly using the tikzpagenodes package.
%fly.tex
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz,tikzpagenodes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\draw[blue] ...
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How to install MacTeX on a network drive/file server
How do you install MacTeX on a network drive? The MacTeX installer does not give me the option to install to any other drive than the ones physically attached to my computer. I want to install the ...
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How to make LaTeX see local texmf tree
I recently installed TeXLive 2011 on my Mac running Snow Leopard. I did not download MacTeX (for reasons we won't go into here). I'm running into a problem where pdflatex can't see my local texmf ...
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Installing biber on Ubuntu 10.04
My tex file has backend=biber in the header. But, as I use tex-live 2009, biber is not installed by default. I downloaded the biber.tar.gz from the biber project page at sourceforg., When I extracted ...
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Where is TeXworks after installing TeX Live 2011 on Fedora 15?
I've installed TeX Live 2011 on Fedora 15 following the guide at the texlive site, http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html. I've got texdoc, tlmgr and so on working from the terminal but I can't ...
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Eforms on Mac OS X
I am using Texclipse and TexLive. I just updated to TexLive 2011 and set my path
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin
however I don't have the eforms package that comes with acrotex. I ...
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TeX Live OS X users: testing needed for “download on the fly” script?
Not sure if this is a strictly appropriate question (I hope so, because it has to do with TeX-related tools) but I need to know whether or not my texliveonfly.py script runs successfully on OS X. ...
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Problems by enlarging tex memory [closed]
I have a problem with the tex memory while using pgfplots and a very huge dataset in Ubuntu.
Under Windows with MikTeX I have the following settings and the texfile compile without any problems:
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xelatex stopped working after TexLive2011 update 2 days ago
I updated Tex Live 2011 a couple of days ago and I can't run XeLaTeX anymore on a document I was working on. When it runs it gets stuck and I have to abort it. Resulting in the following error. I've ...
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Frutiger font in TexLive 2011 and Lion OS
I tried to install the Frutiger font on TexLive 2011 using Lion OS. I followed this guide:
Copy the file frutiger.tar.gz to the folder /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local.
Unzip the file.
Open a shell ...
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Is the package ucharclasses not included in TeX Live?
I have completed the net install of TeX Live 2011 on Linux. I am trying to install the ucharclasses package through tlmgr but it seems that the package is missing.
I am using this mirror. According ...
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List of packages originally installed with Tex Live
Is there way to get a list of the packages which were installed when TeX Live was initially set up?
I can get a list of all present packages with tlmgr list | grep '^i' but I do not see a way to ...
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Best way to install packages for TeXLive in Ubuntu?
I want to install a package (specifically xlop). I'm using TeXLive on Ubuntu, and I don't really know my way around LaTeX.
Can apt-get install or something similar be used?
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How can I make texdoc find certain documentation?
(This is a question in relation to something brought up in chat, http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=1918860#1918860.)
I'm using TeX Live 2009 in Ubuntu 11.04 and neither texdoc pgf nor ...
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Copying a TeXLive installation
What would be the easiest way to copy a TeXLive installation from one computer to another?
I'm going to set up a new laptop to be a replacement for this machine, and I'd prefer not to have to ...
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What are TeXLive's four different texmf folders?
Could someone please explain to me what the purpose of the four different texmf folders are in Mac? E.g. there is:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-config
...
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Setting the path to textlive installation, round 2
It seems like everytime I install textlive distro on one of my computers I have the same problem:
peter@msideb:~$ tlmgr --gui
bash: tlmgr: command not found
The below reflects the current state of ...
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Versions of TeXLive under Ubuntu
Since installing Ubuntu, I noticed that it has an old version of TeXLive, namely, TeXLive 2009. To get the latest version, I downloaded and installed TeXLive 2011 from CTAN. As this installs itself ...
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Embedding Movies with XeTeX+beamer+movie15 in TeXLive 2011
I recently got a new computer and so installed MacTeX 2011, previously I had been using the 2009 version. I have used the TeXLive utility to bring the 2011 version up to date today.
I use XeTeX with ...
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How do I configure the paths for TexLive2011 to work on my system with TexWorks 0.5?
How do I configure the paths for TexLive2011 to work on my system with TexWorks2011? System: Deb 6 64 bit.
Currently
peter@peter-deb:~$ sudo tlmgr --gui
sudo: tlmgr: command not found
...
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latexmk not accompanying TexWorks 0.5?
I seem to remember latexmk should be included since ver 0.4 TexWorks. I have ver 0.5 r.930 Debian installed on Deb 6 64 bit. Also I have Texworks 2011 installed in my home folder. So why doesn't ...
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TL2011 installation keeps failing due to error
Installing [0960/2311, time/total: 22:33/56:42]: hfoldsty [598k]
Installing [0961/2311, time/total: 22:39/56:53]: hhtensor [167k]
Installing [0962/2311, time/total: 22:43/57:02]: histogr [95k]
...
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Ubuntu Tex Live installation error
Due to the old version of Tex Live available in Ubuntu 11.04, I tried to install Tex-Live 2011 using the instructions given on the TUG website.
However, when I run the install-tl script I get the ...
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Path-related errors with TexLive2011
I was playing around with the path settings in tlmgr and the following error came up:
Updating symlinks ...
Executing action path add
Can't exec "kpsewhich": Too many levels of symbolic links at ...
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A file I compiled under TeXLive 2009 cannot be compiled under TeXLive 2010 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Whatever happened to \newfontinstance?
I compiled the following code with TexLive 2009 before. However, I get the following error message now.
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tlmgr is not accessible after installing TeX Live 2011 on a Ubuntu system
tlmgr -gui No command 'tlmgr' found, did you mean:
Command 'vlmgr' from package 'qdbm-util' (universe) Command 'rlmgr'
from package 'qdbm-util' (universe) tlmgr: command not found
Since I ...
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When and how are packages added to TeX Live?
I've noticed that some of the packages I've uploaded to CTAN are now in TL2011, and some I've updated lately have been updated in TL2011, too.
When are packages added/updated in TeX Live? Is it an ...
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Upgrade to MacTeX 2011 without redownloading entire distribution?
Is it possible to upgrade from MacTeX 2010 to 2011 without downloading the entire package for new?
I’ve tried starting the instructons for upgrading TeXLive at tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html, up to ...
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TikZ “callout” positioning problem
I have just recently upgraded my TeXLive from version 2010 to 2011 (OS versions Ubuntu 10.10/Maverick 32-bit and Windows 7/64 bit).
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (Web2C 2011)
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Why is synctex in TL 2011 so fussy about filenames?
The forward search script I had written for vim and mupdf is no longer working since installing TL 2011, and upon investigating why, it seems that synctex is now very fussy about filenames, at least ...
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tlmgr problems under downstream package environment
I am looking for more detailed information on tlmgr. The information I have is from tlmgr --help and it does not help to solve problems I have.
Background
I have used Robby Workman's ...
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Where is template.sty? (Required in xfrac) [closed]
Having just updated to TL2011, I find that the xfrac package fails with the error:
! LaTeX Error: File `template.sty' not found.
Sure enough, neither kpsewhich nor find can locate it. I can find ...
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How to install a package from an older version of TeXLive?
I am using TeXLive 2010. I wanted to try xelatex for better unicode support. But I am unable to install these new packages as the TeXLive mirrors have moved on to 2011.
tlmgr: package repository ...
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How to handle old source needing floatflt.sty?
I just updated to latest version of texlive (2011) for mac and suddenly I don't have the floatflt.sty any longer. It seems it has changed license and is no longer shipped with the distributions. (A ...
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Prematurely ended file
I'm trying to read a large file (about 1.5M) with information to be processed, but it always ends prematurely with either \input or a loop with \read. The file is correctly balanced (believe me) and ...
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Continue interrupted tlmgr update
I used
tlmgr update --all
today, and it froze when running mktexlsr, so I aborted it. When I ran it again, it said no updates available. But clearly there remains something to do after updating ...
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Execute xelatex
My xelatex application in "C" directory.
My Tex file is in "D" Directory.
How can I run my tex file in "D" Drive?
and cmd prompt?
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Installing TexLive (windows)
I most likely caused this problem for myself, but I would welcome any suggestions to help dig me out of this hole.
First of all, I tried to install texlive 2011 and got the error message that my ...
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What's a simple way to migrate a TeXWorks (Windows) configuration from TexLive 2010 to 2011?
Following advice from the question How to upgrade TeXLive 2009 to TeXLive 2010, I'm installing TeXLive 2011 (on Windows Vista) in a new directory. Overall, this seems fine, after copying my ...
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Upgrading to texlive 2011
I can't seem to upgrade to TL2011 somehow:
root@dell:/usr/local/texlive/2011# ./update-tlmgr-latest.sh -- --upgrade
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager ...
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How to configure kile to run texlive 2011?
I install TeX Live 2011 in Linux, but i can not configure kile to run the TL11. Can you explain step by step, please?
Solved:
$gedit ~/.profile
and digit
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Font: Is British Baskerville typeface available in TeXLive 2010
I would like to know if the British Baskerville typeface is available in TeXLive2010 (i.e. freely). If yes, which package to load?
Thanks...
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TeX Live 2010 and Thunderbird add-on LaTeXIt! don't cooperate
I am using the Thunderbird email client on Windows and I have TeX Live 2010. I have tried the Thunderbird add-on LaTeXIt! (to insert equations as images in emails). (This is not the Mac tool LaTeXiT, ...
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Can TeXLive pretest be upgraded to official edition?
If I install TeXLive Pretest 2011 now, can it be upgraded to official edition with tlmgr when that is out? Or will I have to install again?
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TeXlive 2011 Pretest - Trouble with Synctex? [closed]
Is anyone else having trouble with synctex in the TeXlive 2011 pretest? My set-up is Emacs+Auctex+Okular (on Linux). I can't get forward-search/sync to work with TeXlive 2011. (I confirmed that my ...
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any basic extension for open-office? [closed]
I wonder if is there any extension teX for open office 3 under ubuntu 11.04.. even if it was for basic teX tasks. I got problems to set up paths links between teXlive itself and any of the editor apps ...
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How to mirror TeX Live?
I have a local network with many clients using (La)TeX. Mirroring TeX Live distribution in my server will save time and bandwidth. We are Windows users who are not familiar with RSYNC.
I have read the ...
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Replacement for MiKTeX's texify in TeX Live
I used to use the texify command in MiKTeX on Windows.
I would, for example, run a command like:
texify --pdf --run-viewer file.tex
which, as I understand it, would produce a pdf, automatically ...
