TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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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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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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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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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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TeX Live 2012 - what should be known about it?
TeX Live 2012 release is near, so I think it is possibly a good time to sum it a bit, like it was done before with 2011. Feel free to add anything relevant in this community wiki.
What should we know ...
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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 publish a package that includes scripts and/or executables?
I'm preparing to publish my first package, and am not sure about the best way to proceed. I understand the standard CTAN publishing approach, but I'm dealing with a somewhat atypical case since my ...
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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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latex gives me the error: Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered
As the title states, compiling with latex produces the error, right away:
Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered!---case 14
I have no idea what this means... I use TexLive 2012. I updated ...
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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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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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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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Multi-OS Portable TeX system
I'm looking to treat myself to a totally portable TeX system and was wondering: is it possible to devise an installation scheme that would run on Windows, Linux and MacOS at the "same" time?
I think ...
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Different package manager: Why? [closed]
I was wondering why do we need different package managers in TeXLive and MiKTex?
Would it not be better and less work for both authors if there was a common approach and even other persons taking ...
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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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TeXLive 2011 - what's new, what is no longer available - i.e. what should be known before upgrading
According to http://www.tug.org/texlive/ TeXLive 2011 is almost released, so it's a good moment to initiate some early reports about it, especially:
what it brings new to the table - e.g. killer ...
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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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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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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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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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Why does TeX Live's pdflatex produce smaller PDFs than MiKTeX's pdflatex?
When building my master thesis, I've found that the size of the produced PDF differs if I use Tex Live on Ubuntu compared to MiKTeX on Windows; for the latter, the size is about 50% greater (from ...
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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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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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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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What does “skipping forcibly removed package xxx” mean? Should I care about it?
I got the following messages when updating TeX Live 2012 using the provided GUI.
What does "skipping forcibly removed package xxx" mean? Should I care about it?
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How to get a package into texlive
Say I have written an awesome package called "worldpeace.sty" and uploaded it to CTAN. What can I do to get the package in to texlive?
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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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telling luaotfload where to look for fonts
The documentation of luaotfload states that on Linux fontconfig is used to find the font locations. However all fonts I install in /usr/share/local/fonts edit: /usr/local/share/fonts(as I don't want ...
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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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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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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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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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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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TeXLive won't find files in $HOME/texmf
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and was trying to get my custom styles/fonts and the like to work. As on all distributions before, I store them in $HOME/texmf, with a tree structure according to the ...
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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 install a latex package in MacOS TeXLive?
I just downloaded cyrillic package into a temp directory and executed:
sudo latex cyrlatex.ins
It works, but it produces a few dozen files in the same directory. How to place them into my TeXLive ...
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Where can I find the changelog of TeX Live releases?
I know that TeX Live 2013 is now in beta and that there are already some new packages. I would like to know where the complete changelog will be available, when the new version will be released, and ...
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How to generate a TeX-file containing information of all installed packages of an actual TeXLive
Is it possible to generate a TeX-file with all information needed about the installed packages of a TeXLive distribution?
If you want only certain elements of the table, you can use this snippet. :-)
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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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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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In TexLive 2009, 'tlmgr' tells me there are 'no updates available' for months now. Really?
Running TeXLive 2009 on Ubuntu 10.4, a vanilla install. I used to be able to get updates for TeXLive 2009, I'm sure. But for months now it just tells me:
sudo ...
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Computer powered down during tlmgr update, now tlmgr won't update packages, nor itself
As title says, I was updating the packages in my TL installation (by tlmgr update --all) from the command line in Win7, but for some strange reason the computer just powered down during the update, ...
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Automatically Determine which TeXLive Version is being used
I would like to be able to automatically determine which release of TeXLive that I am running. I sometimes encounter a problem where it is useful to test that the file compiled correctly in an older ...
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Backing up and restoring texlive 2011 (Linux)
Is there an easy and safe way to back up and restore an entire texlive installation, e.g. before a fresh OS (re)installation or to put onto another pc (same architecture)?
What I have in mind is to ...
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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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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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Problem with TexLive installation on Fedora 17
I just upgraded to Fedora 17 and tried to install TeX Live, as usually, by downloading the install script, install-tl from tug.org. When I run
./install-tl
I get this output:
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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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Is it necessary to disable virus scanner during TeX Live installation, and if so, why?
Is it necessary to disable virus scanner during TeX Live installation, and if so, why?
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How to move TeX Live to another partition (/data)
I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (/data) and so reuse that partition for LyX-TeX after OS re-install, as well as share that TeX ...
