On Friday, May 15th, 2026 at 8:56 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Heime <[email protected]> writes: > > > I wanted to upgrade my texlive installation and texlive-scheme-full > > was installed. I still have texlive-20250308. > > > > Can I remove texlive-20250308. Will texlive-scheme-full take effect > > and how can I use texlive-scheme-full? > > Package `texlive' is a deprecated alias for `texlive-scheme-full', so yes, > you can remove `texlive' and use only `texlive-scheme-full'. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > However I strongly discourage from installing `texlive-scheme-full'. > I don’t know your use case but you probably do not need at least > 80% of the packages it provides (e.g., I assume you don’t write > a thesis for 60 universities across the world). If the current distribution strategy for TeX Live is indeed as described, the people at texlive have really lost the plot. A departure from a user-centric design that fails to provide a stable, foundational release creates substantial hurdles for users attempting to establish a functional environment. The influence of academic and institutional priorities, has complicated the installation process to the point of frustration, effectively obscuring the primary goal of providing a reliable typesetting system. > Instead, I suggest to select a few so-called collections of packages > you may be interested in, such as `texlive-collection-latexrecommended', > and possibly add some dependencies manually (in particular those > coming from "latexextra" collection, which is huge) when compilation > asks about them. At some point your setup will stabilize and you will > end up managing Mo instead of Go of TeX packages. Is the selection via Guix? > > How can I then run latex on a file? Calling lualatex has given me > > > > hagbard@kup:~$ luatex > > Unable to read locale data: please check the 'locale' settings of your > > environment for consistency. Exiting now. > > There’s a thread about it on TeX stackexchange : > <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/374303/luatex-error-unable-to-read-environment-localeexit-now>. > You may want to check it for solutions. > > Regards, > -- > Nicolas Goaziou
