TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed. So how do I install ...
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What are the advantages of TeX Live over MiKTeX?
I have been using MiKTeX for a couple of years. I don't know whether it is "wise" to insist on using it. Could you give me a list of advantages of TeX Live over MiKTeX?
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Purpose of local texmf trees
In Tex Live there are several local texmf trees (TEXMFLOCAL for admin and TEXMFHOME for user, compare comments and answers to What are TeXLive's four different texmf folders?), in MiKTeX I manually ...
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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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Forward-inverse search using SyncTeX with the precison of a single word
I would like to know if SyncTeX supports forward search and inverse search in a precision of a single word. The "default" implementation in both TeXLive and MikTeX only seems to be able to synchronize ...
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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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How to register my own packages or classes in a separate drive to TeX Live installation?
I create my own documentclasses and packages in some directory of tex\latex. The directory tex\latex itself might be in any other directory in any drive. I can register the packages/classes to Miktex ...
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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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What font packages are installed in TeX live?
What font packages are installed in a full installation of TeX live? Which are obsolete? Example: \usepackage{mathpazo} brings Palatino as the roman font. The times package seems to be obsolete (as ...
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How to add an extra searchable dir with personal style files to TeXLive, NOT under ~/Library/texmf?
Migrated from Win-MiKTeX (WMTX) to MacOSX-Aquamacs with TeXLive (MXATL), I have my personal .sty/.cls files somewhere under my homedir. So I go with ShreevatsaR's comments from Aug. 5 on this site ...
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Why is the MacTeX distribution so large? Is there anything smaller for OS X?
I would like to know how to install LaTeX on Mac 10.6 or higher.
But the MacTeX is some 1.28 GB file! Is there a smaller distribution I could install?
What exactly is TeX Live?
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Converting MS Word .doc to LaTeX by command line
There are many guides to convert .doc to .tex with text editor softwares (mostly under Windows); and this popularity has made it hard to search for command-based converting methods.
I am looking for ...
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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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Is there an debian/ubuntu package containing mdframed.sty?
I found several answers on this site recommending the mdframed package. However, I can't find a ubuntu texlive package that includes this. Do I have to install this manually or am I overlooking ...
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How to remove everything related to TeX Live for fresh install on Ubuntu?
How can I remove everything that is related to TeX Live from my Ubuntu 12.04? I first used the backport packages from ppa:texlive-backports/ppa and later the manual install via install-tl-unx.tar.gz. ...
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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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How to upgrade TeXLive 2009 to TeXLive 2010
I have a TeXLive 2009 installation on my Linux machine. And, I'd like to upgrade it to TeXLive 2010. I tried the command sudo tlmgr update --self --all as suggested in How to keep my TeX Live ...
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How to print the list of packages installed on TeX Live to a file?
OS: Ubuntu 11.10
TeX: Tex Live 2011
List of packages originally installed with Tex Live
Using the information given at the aforementioned question, I was able to see the list of packages in my ...
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How to keep my TeX Live installation up to date?
What is the recommended way to keep my TeX Live installation up to date? Is there any package manager (like MikTeX on Windows) that could help me with this?
If it helps I'm running on Mac OS X and my ...
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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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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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How to use the Luximono font with TeX Live?
I've switched from MiKTeX 2.9 to TeX Live 2011 (pretest version). I've managed to integrate some third party fonts (included neither in MiKTeX nor in TeX Live) in my TEXMFLOCAL tree following the ...
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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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How to use translate_file correctly in patgen of TexLive?
This question follows previous one about use of patgen.
I installed TeX Live 2011 (thanks Martin) and find patgen (version 2.4) command.
According to manual, command is:
patgen dictionary_file ...
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If I have TeX Live 2011 how to install a previous version of biblatex (1.0)?
I install from the internet TeX Live 2011. I have to use MLA to write all my papers, and I have this problem: biblatex-mla sometimes \autocite[prenote][pg]{key} is not printing the author's name
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Update TikZ/PGF on mac
the TeXLive 2012 distribution on my Mac is shipped with TikZ version 2.10 - I want to use (try) the CVS (most updated beta(?) version). Here's what I've done so far:
Downloaded the the TDS package
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Install a beta package from TLContrib on MacTeX 2011 TeX Live
I know this has been a question many times asked/answered.
But I have still difficulty to understand because TeX Live has different tree on Mac and is available also on Linux.
The question is ...
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Why does TeX Live “require” yearly updates?
Every year TeX Live provides a new version. My recollection is that soon after a new version is released, the old version's tlmgr stops fetching updates to packages. They provide upgrading ...
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It is possible to make fonts appear heavier (darker) in pdf output of Latex?
[Edited to include what I have learned from the answers.]
I am using Latex in TeX Live on my Mac, through TeXLive. I compile .pdf files using Pdflatex. I use the default fonts. [These fonts are ...
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tlmgr error: perl.exe has stopped working
I have been using TeX Live 2010 on my Windows 7 computer for some time now, without problems. Recently I decided to use the TeX Live Manager to check for updates, which were successfully installed. ...
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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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How does LaTeX find package files?
On a fresh install of TeXlive on a Linux box (Linux Mint 11) I get the following error message:
! LaTeX Error: File `scalefnt.sty' not found.
But the file is there:
$ find /usr/ -name ...
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Fresh install texlive 2012 @ Ubuntu 12.04: tlmgr nowhere to be found
I know this subject has come up quite a few times so far (with different distro's of texlive). See for instance:
Missing tlmgr texlive 2012
tlmgr: TeX Live 2011 is frozen forever
Texlive installation ...
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How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17?
On Fedora 17 I have at least 3 ways to use TeX Live:
Install it from the default repository (TeX Live 2007, very old)
Add a work-in-progress developer repository - is it stable enough? In the past ...
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can't \includegraphics eps files anymore with xelatex (used to work fine)
I've just noticed that (most likely caused by upgrading to opensuse 11.3 with TexLive 2009) whenever I try to \includegraphics{filename.eps} an eps file, I get the error:
Unable to load picture or ...
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New language - hyphenation
I'm working in a project (Ubuntu Manual, if you're curious) which requires TeX to create a PDF document. But when we have almost all translated, I've found that there wasn't an hyphenation pattern for ...
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Which fonts that are part of TeXLive have “real small caps”?
The TeX font catalogue doesn't allow you to see which fonts have real small caps. Some fonts do not have real small caps (e.g. any of the mathdesign ones). But some do (computer modern and therefore ...
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How can I call TexLive in Ubuntu?
Following the instructions in this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX , I installed TexLive, which needs some 1GB of space (I installed the texlive-full package). Yet, after installation, I ...
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Non-repository management of TeXLive packages on Ubuntu
I am looking to update my version of beamer to 3.10 (which supports nonstandard slide aspect ratios), however the Ubuntu main repository only has version 3.07. I was not able to locate tlmgr. Is there ...
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Texlive installation is missing tlmgr, how to fix?
I installed with the net install Texlive 2010 on an Ubuntu machine. Because I don't have to much space to spare I carefully selected components to install to reduce the required disk-space.
Later I ...
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Is it possible to download TeX Live in a separate, single file?
Installation through the internet is so harsh...
For example, is there a torrent for TeX Live?
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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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Can I install new packages for texlive
It seems that I can not do anything to update this outdated TeXlive+Kile system.
********:~/TeX$ texhash
texhash: /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R: no write permission. Skipping...
texhash: ...
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Tengwar script in TeX Live 2011
I tried to compile this example but the LaTeX compiler gives the following errors. What can I do?
name = tngani, rootname = tngani, pointsize = mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile!
Cannot find ...
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How to get mdframed package working correctly?
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits system, I wanted to add the mdframed package to my texlive distribution.
After searching in Ubuntu standard repositories without success, I went to the CTAN website to ...
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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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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 ...
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How to configure the dictionary-path for TeXworks @ TeX Live portable?
I want to use spell-checking with TeXworks under TeXlive (portable) under Windows XP.
Is it possible to use the dictionaries of Mozilla, e.g. en-GB.aff
and en-GB.dic?
Where do I place the ...
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Install downloaded package via tlmgr
I’d like to install a package (microtype 2.5 beta 4) under TeX Live that isn’t available in the official repository.
Now, I know that it’s usually enough to put the package under ~/texmf/tex/latex/ ...
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Whatever happened to \newfontinstance?
I just installed a pretest version of TeXLive 2010 and tried compiling some files as a test. None of my XeLaTeX files compile because apparently the command \newfontinstance (which was defined in ...
