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stegro

Member

Registered: 2012-12-08

Posts: 2

a working get-texlive script

Hello everyone,

I installed SliTaz 4.0 on an old Laptop with just 800Mhz and 128MB RAM (but formidable keyboard...) and it looks very nice, does not consume too much memory and works ! Thumbs up! Thank you very much!

The only thing is: at least for me, the get-texlive script which is contained in the get-texlive package in the repository is broken.

I do not know anything about the tazpkg format or the 'tazpkg pack' command and did not find information for the latter apart from the man page and a single forum post somewhere here.

But with a couple of small changes to the get-texlive script, I can use it now to install a working texlive base.

In order to get latex installed, you run with root privileges:

> ./get-texlive

Which downloads a basic texlive collection, installs it into a temporary folder, builds a package from it, installs the package as "texlive" and removes the temporary files.

Then install additional packages via the TexLive Manager, as an example 'wrapfig'

> tlmgr install wrapfig

and I image this could also work

> tlmgr install latex latex-recommended

BUT: Actually, before I noticed tlmgr I had already written an alternative script which you can also find attached to this post and which installs the texlive package with the basic collection as well as the latex, latex-recommended and mathextra packages - and some support for the German language (my mother tongue).

THEREFORE: I do not know wether

> tlmgr install latex latex-recommended

really works or wether the command should be slightly different. Anyway.

Maybe this is useful for someone else, too.

Have a nice day! And give your old computers some love!

Stegro

kitty____

Member

Registered: 2012-12-06

Posts: 36

Re: a working get-texlive script

please, upload you script to some hosting, for example, http://ge.tt , or pastebin,  , (because you write "I had already written an alternative script which you can also find attached to this post and which installs...", nothing attachment here, forum  forbidden now to attach any file to post, only images....

stegro

Member

Registered: 2012-12-08

Posts: 2

Re: a working get-texlive script

et voilà

http://ge.tt/8wmztAT

thank you for the link, kitty. The forum did not allow me to upload the files (wrong suffix and wrong mimetype)...