The Debian/Ubuntu packages for TeXlive are usually outdated, sometimes up to several years behind CTAN. Now, I understand that
packaging TeX Live takes a lot of work
and, if you want to follow the latest developments, you essentially have to install from scratch (also here and here) using tlmgr
and then create a "dummy" package (from tug.org).
Is anyone aware of efforts to automate this for Debian/Ubuntu? Once automated, this could be wrapped into an "installer package" (as seen for zotero
, libflashplayer-plugin
, nautilus-dropbox
, ...). This installer package has a version and dependencies, but does not contain the files -- they are downloaded and installed in the "configure" step of dpkg
. Wouldn't this be sweet:
apt-get install texlive-installer
gets you an up-to-date TeXlive with no need for manual updates (since the installer package will update the TeXlive installation on apt-get upgrade
).
Advertisement: I have even pushed my own dummy package to a PPA, so that the next time I need to install a new machine I don't have to redo this. (Hope I got the dependencies right...)
www.tug.org
website. texenthusiast has referred to it and linked to it before in posts.