Questions tagged [texlive]
TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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Why is tex4ht not installing?
I've installed TeX Live, but was told that there was an error installing tex4ht, and to run tlmgr update --all --reinstall-forcibly-removed to fix it. I did so, but got this:
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How can I find a TeX Live repository for a certain version of TeX Live? [duplicate]
I have TeXLive 2022 installed on my system - it's my Linux distribution's default. If I run tlmgr --gui, and try to load the default repository (URL: https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texline/tlnet) - I ...
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How to "fake packages" for TeX Live on Arch Linux?
How to "fake packages" for TeX Live on Arch Linux?
I installed TeX Live directly from the script rather than the Arch packages. However pacman is unaware that I installed it and tries to ...
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How accurate / up-to-date is the depends field in .tlpobj
Information about the dependencies of packages can be viewed by using tlmgr --data "name,depends" info to get a list of all packages and their dependencies. I'm guessing this shows the ...
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Security Issue in TexLive: Someone changing the checksums?
Is someone tampering the checksum files of the TexLive installation on CTAN? Or is it just a server or download issue? If I download the checksum files repeatedly at the same time but using different ...
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I Install TexLive from Source and Want to Upgrade Package Circuitikz Manually, how?
I install from source Texlive into this directory /opt/texlive
version 2021.
It is a Linux OS.
I want to upgrade Circuitikz package manually, without using tlmgr because I have no internet in this ...
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TeXLive 2023 Installation problem - LuaTeX
I'm trying to install TeXLive 2023 on Windows 11 by clicking on the installation file install-tl-windows.exe, but get the following error messages - the script has trouble installing LuaTex and fails. ...
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tlmgr won't update
I have texlive (version 2023) on Linux Mint. When I try to install a package using tlmgr install sidecap it says I need to update tlmgr first. I used tlmgr update --self but that returns:
Unable to ...
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Installing specialist "metsymb" font via Tex Live Utility leads to LookupError
The metsymb package was just uploaded to CTAN. This is the final stage in a long process to include (custom) vectorial symbols in Python plots via LaTeX - and for which I already got a lot of help ...
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Where does TeX Live download packages from?
When researching this, I found this answer which led me to try tlmgr option repository. This worked and returned Default package repository (repository): https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet. ...
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Can I use a different version of dvisvgm than the one bundled with TeX Live 2023?
I downloaded TeX Live 2022 using these instructions, and upgraded to TeX Live 2023 using these instructions. The dvisvgm that ends up getting installed on my system is 3.03. I want to use 3.1. Is ...
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Compilation errors after re-installation
I re-installed my OS (Ubuntu 20.04) and Latex (package texlive-latex-extra), and I get compilation errors for my previously working documents.
The documents still work fine on Overleaf, but not on my ...
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How to use an asterisk as footnote mark, once [closed]
I'm writing my PhD thesis. The university requires that chapters that use copyright protected work must have a footnote marked in their title declaring the copyright protected materials. The title ...
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Installing documentation only for certain packages
I don't need the documentation for every single package that I have installed (it would take several GB on my disk for no reason). However, I'd like to download the documentation for a small number of ...
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latexmk seems to miss the last, required rerun of *latex
I am using TeX Live 2023, TeX 3.141592653, LuaHBTeX 1.16.0, Latexmk 4.79 on Windows 10.
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I have a MWE that compiles without problems by doing lualatex -> biber -> lualatex ->...
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TeXLive and TeXstudio error when compiling any file
I installed texlive and texstudiobut I'm always getting the same error when I try to compile any file. The error that outputs to texput.log is the following:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1....
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Biber/Biblatex mismatch after fresh installation of texlive
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04, and I needed some more updated latex packages, so I manually installed texlive 2023 (after uninstalling the apt-get version, at least so I thought). I correctly set that up in ...
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How to write my own TexLive package?
I want to create my own latex package with a .sty file in it, and install it via tlmgr command.
I've looked it up in Google, and found only this page https://tug.org/texlive/pkgcontrib.html, where I ...
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KOMA-Script installed but class not found
I have a basic scheme of TeX Live installed. I installed the KOMA-Script package via tlmgr but when I try to compile my document, I get the ! LaTeX Error: File `scrartcl.cls' not found. I also tried ...
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Arch Linux: Fontspec does not find *.ttf-Font (LuaLaTex)
Since the last update to the newest TexLive version, a corporate designed scrlttr2-document does not compile anymore.
I always receive errors about a missing font:
Font \TU/lmr/m/n/10=[lmroman10-...
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Usage of the command "pdftex [OPTION] ... \FIRST-LINE"
I'm novice TeX user who inherited 100 plain TeX files that I want to convert to PDF. I installed TeX Live 2013 on a Mac to do so.
Before converting to PDF I would like to add each TeX file's date and ...
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I installed vanilla TeX Live on Debian but apt still tries to install "texlive-" packages although I tricked packages
I had TeX Live 2022 installed and upgraded to TeX Live 2023. I followed this wonderful guide:
Remove old installation
sudo apt-get purge texlive*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/*
sudo rm -rf ~/....
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Does texlive-scheme-full in Fedora 38 come with a ready set of templates?
I ran sudo dnf install texlive-scheme-full in Fedora 38, and it downloaded 2.6 GB of files. Surely, there must be ready-to-use templates among those files, but I cannot seem to find them.
Do I have to ...
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'"lilypond"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I am interested in using lyLuaTeX. I am used to Overleaf, but Overleaf seems incompatible with lyLuaTeX, so I have downloaded TeX Live and Texmaker. Page 5 of the lyLuaTeX documentation (https://ctan....
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Suddenly `` and -- is not translated to curly quotes and en-dash
I'm using TexLive running Xelatex on Arch from Neovim with Vimtex, all the latest version.
I haven't used LaTeX for a while and after a full system upgrade, I'm noticing some problems with my current ...
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Package repository not verified: pubkey missing
Am getting the following error when I try to do tlmgr install package:
tlmgr.pl: package repository http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: pubkey missing)
It appears I need ...
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Project-local texmf directory
I'd like track my LaTeX projects using git, especially when collaborating with other authors. I'd also like to track my texmf directory in a separate git repository. My desire is to add my texmf ...
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Installation of texlive packages ubuntu 20.04
I'm kindly asking for your help. I'm trying to install texlive on Ubuntu 20.04. I tried to find information on how to install it, but I found out there are several packages: texlive-full,texlive-latex-...
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In TeX Live 2023, how can I make `tlmgr` honour setting `verify-repo = 1` in its configuration file?
I have been setting verify-repo to all in tlmgr's configuration file for some time. Having just installed TeX Live 2023, I did this for the new release. I then tried to confirm the value was set ...
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Install mtpro2 font for TeXLive user
I'm a Window user, and I'm currently using TeXLive on Visual Studio Code for my LaTeX documents. I recently purchased the mtpro2 package for a better math font, but what I receive is a file named ...
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Trojan in install-tl-windows.exe reported by Windows Defender
a colleague of mine have a strange problem with the windows installer. She downloaded the install-tl-windows.exe from https://www.tug.org/texlive/windows.html in a fresh and clean machine running ...
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Seeking step-by-step instructions to install an old version of TeX Live
The TeX Live availability page states that installing old versions of TeX Live can be done, and different versions on the same system will not conflict. It provides a link to the historic archive, but ...
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Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX
I'm running a minimal, up-to-date TeX Live installation on Windows 11. I am trying to use biblatex and biber for bibliography management.
The problem I am experiencing is that I must run pdflatex ...
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Unicode Rightarrow is missing from my font
I get this error:
Missing character: There is no ⇒ (U+21D2) in font [lmmono12-regular]:!
I use xelatex and the package unicode-math as suggested at
Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX
Should I ...
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Tinytex and TeXstudio (Mac)
How can I connect the LaTex distribution that I installed with Tinytex with TeXstudio?
I have downloaded Tinytex from Rstudio (following the instructions here).
From Rstudio I am now able to compile ....
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Lyx can't generate pdf for CJK-containing document
I use Lyx on Windows 10.
I did what this link asks me to do.
https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Chinese
I added this to document preamble.
\usepackage{cjk}
\usepackage{arphic}
\usepackage{latex-cjk-all}
I ...
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How to set up pythontex package in latex?
I am trying to learn pythontex but the commands and environments from pythontex do not show any output. I tried to run the following example from youtube (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Extremely slow typesetting on TexShop and TexMaker even after reinstalling MacTex
I am using the most updated versions of TexShop (5.12) and TexMaker (5.1.4) on a MacBook Air 13.6" running Mac OS Ventura 13.0. Even the simplest files (like this basic Overleaf beamer example ...
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TeX Live 2023 Install additional otf, ttf fonts
I have installed TeX Live 2023 completely. I compile with Lualatex. Now the compiler tells me that it still wants the following fonts:
Package fontspec: The font "NotoSansArabic" cannot be ...
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fontspec not finding fonts with neither XeLaTeX nor LuaLaTeX
I've tried so many fonts and none of them work, all I get is:
! LaTeX Error: File `ebgaramond.sty' not found.
This is an example of what I have on my document, though I've tried many others:
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pdf output from gnuplot is missing labels
When I run the following on my gnuplot script, the interactive Qt gnuplot window appears; the labelled graph I'm looking for appears as it should be; and I can select "export to pdf".
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TeX Live 2023 installation stuck here
I was trying to install TeX Live 2023 on a new Win11 laptop, and the process got stuck at installing a2ping.windows. I tried to switch mirrors, and I think my Internet access and CPU are fairly good.
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For TeXlive 2023, has the list of distro-specific packages to "block" changed?
I had in the past installed TL 2021 and 2022 and always used the method outlined specifically for Debian-based distros, which recommends using equivs to declare both packages which should not be ...
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How to change the \input paths from an initialization file (latexmkrc) to run latexpand and latexdiff on big projects?
I am working on a project to compare, let's say, "Old/main.tex" and "New/main.tex" which are assumed to be two big LaTeX projects with multiple calls to \input{}. To do so, I am ...
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Unable to view PDF in VSCode tab
I'm using LaTeX Workshop extension on VSCode to build pdf documents.
I can compile my source code successfully and get pdf file, but I can not view pdf in VSCode tab.
No error is detected in the ...
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New 2023 TeXlive, similar but different arara problem
I had previously posted a question about Arara, with TeXlive 2022 and with specific reference to ConTeXt (see ConTeXt and Arara, failure. That question has been closed due to "lack of clarity&...
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Can't Find Garamond Font
I'm using TeX Live right now on ArchLinux with VS Code and James Yu's LaTeX Workshop or pdflatex. Here is my latex-v:
pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023/Arch Linux)
kpathsea version 6.3.5
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Can you still update a TexLive 202X when a TeXLive 202X+1 is released?
I run TexLive Utility infrequently (about twice a year, because I concentrate on the content I create, not on updating my installation). I would like to be able to use it, say now, for TexLive 2022, ...
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TeX: mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font
My goal is to install commercial font GT-America to use with TeX. The font consist of several .otf files.
What I did so far:
Installed all the fonts using sudo autoinst
Ran sudo texhash and sudo ...
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Install TeXlive 2023 from DVD-USB fails
I downloaded the ISO image of TeXlive 2023 (specifically, texlive2023-20230313.iso). I also checked the SHA512 sum, and it was good. This ISO was too big to unpack onto any DVD_RW that I had on hand, ...
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