After hours wasted trying to work with the Ubuntu repository version of TeXLive
(tlmgr
wasn't working), I installed the "native" version of TeXLive
(2017, via "Quick Installer" from the official site) and tlmgr
was now functional.
However, when I go ahead and install TexMaker
from the Ubuntu repository, it rolls out its own (outdated) version of TeXLive
. I've been trying to install from binaries on TeXMaker's site, but the site is down.
So then I tried installing TeXstudio
, downloaded the appropriate binary (Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit QT5) and installed it via Software Center, but seemingly I'm getting things I never wanted. E.g. the "native" TeXLive
's tlmgr
was in /usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux
folder, after installing TeXstudio
now it's "shadowed" by /usr/bin
. It's also a version that is 2 years behind the current tlmgr
from the official site.
How to install a TeX editor so that it doesn't roll out its own TexLive installation or tlmgr
?
--no-install-recommends
(look it up in the man page for at, not sure I spelled it correctly), then recommend additions will not be installed. Besides this just making and installing the equivs tl package will also be a good idea (I'm guessing that is what samcarters link describes, otherwise the page i always use can be found via a Google on "texlive vanilla Debian"