#2480: Switch from tetex to texlive
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Reporter: rdaniels | Owner: ra...@…
Type: task | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: future
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
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Comment(by willimm):
More notes, to follow up my last ones on 2009. The version I used for my
latest BLFS build was Arch Linux's 2010 version (which can be gotten at
http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/other/texlive/, I used a modified
version of their PKGBUILD, removing all of the special package management
stuff and removal of Alpha/Omega), and I created a working setup using
that version. Just some more notes:
1. This version requires XZ-Utils and Unzip to unpack everything. Which
means that XZ-Utils is a prequisite before this package is added.
2. This version overwrites /usr/bin/man from the Man-DB package. To avoid
having to recompile Man-DB, I'd excute mv -v /usr/bin/man{,.man-db} before
installation, and rm /usr/bin/man && mv -v /usr/bin/man{.man-db,} after
installation.
3. If installing over teTex 3.0, when you try to run texi2dvi or
texi2pdf, it uses the wrong version of etex and eventually fails. To avoid
that problem, just run rm /usr/bin/{etex,pdfetex} before installing
Texlive.
4. It seems that texi2html is not included in Texlive unlike teTex, and
needs to be built separately. Instructions are CMMI, and it can be gotten
at http://www.very-
clever.com/download/nongnu/texi2html/texi2html-1.82.tar.gz. Just thought I
throw it out to you.
5. The cm-super fonts are now included with the texlive-core package.
6. And finally, this version is seperated into modules. This is the order
that you should install everything in:
{{{
texlive-bin (this is two tarballs, the source and the texmf tarball. Use
both, also use the attached fix-fontforge-encoding.patch that fixes an
issue with luatex in UTF-8 locales).
texlive-core (This is an .zip file, so it requires unzip, it unzips into
tons of *.tar.xz files. Use the Arch PKGBUILD for reference for how to
install them (but replace bsdtar with just plain old tar with -vxf)), and
also their texlive-install files.)
texlive-latexextra (Various addons for latex, again, use Arch's PKGBUILD
and texlive-install file for reference.)
(The last packages can be installed in any order)
texlive-bibtexextra (Extra stuff for BibTeX, rember to use Arch's PKGBUILD
and texlive-install for this)
texlive-fontsextra (Extra fonts, you should know what to do by now)
texlive-formatsextra (Extra formats, I think you should know what to do by
now)
texlive-games (Apparently it's for typsetting games... I'm not sure what
uses that...)
texlive-genericextra (This is basically extra generic macro packages and
fonts.)
texlive-htmlxml (This allows TeX conversion to HTML/XML, and also to
typeset XML/SGML into TeX. This package includes JadeTeX (which is used
for SGML conversion to PDF/DVI/PS, so this means that this needs to be
removed from the book and replaced with a pointer to Texlive), and
PassiveTeX (which, if I'm correct, is used by libvorbis to build PDF
documation, and should be replaced by a pointer to Texlive also.))
texlive-humanities (Arch says it's for humanities, but not sure what it's
really useful for...)
texlive-lang* (There are 4 versions total, one of them is for CJK, another
is for Cyrillic langugages, another is for Greek, and the other is for
extra pupources.)
texlive-latex3 (For LaTex3 support.)
texlive-music (For music purposes, but I'm not sure why I would need
it...)
texlive-pictures (For creating images with TeX.)
texlive-plainextra (Extra stuff for plain old TeX.)
texlive-pstricks (Extra stuff for PSTricks.)
texlive-publishers (Extra stuff for specific publishers.)
texlive-science (Extra stuff for scientific puopuses.)
}}}
Well, that was rather wall-of-texty, but at least I have lots of info on
this package...
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