TexLive Setup

The recommended TeX distribution is TeXLive.

• Download from here
  • get Unix Installer
  • extract path: /home/share/tool/texlive
• Execute

  ./install-tl -gui

  • install path: /home/share/tool/texlive/YYYY (currently, YYYY=2020)
  • select basic, then customize (e.g. lang:en, graphics, math, etc.)
  • setup environment variable

    TL_VERS="2020"
    TL_PATH="/home/share/tool/texlive/${TL_VERS}"
    export PATH=${TL_PATH}/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
    export MANPATH=${TL_PATH}/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH
    export INFOPATH=${TL_PATH}/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH

  • setup tlmgr (tlmgr option repository ctan)
• Run manager

  tlmgr --gui

  • needs perl-tk
  • to get collection of a package

    tlmgr show <package>