On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 17.11.2014 um 18:48 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Am 17.11.2014 um 16:23 schrieb stefano franchi: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Julien and Stefano > for your suggestions. For the time being I changed the bst file at the > appropriate site (and->und). I might try archlinux later. > > > Oops, I didn't mean to suggest that switching distribution is the only > solution for installing biber! > I do think, however, that running TeXLive under Ubuntu/Debian may cause > problems *unless* you ditch the Ubuntu-provided packages and switch to the > true TeXLive distribution. I believe our own Scott K has indeed written a > series of scripts to make that process easier [1] > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > [1]https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/blob/master/install-tl-ubuntu > > That sounds good. From the install instruction of it: > > To do this, the official TeX Live 2014 installer is downloaded and > used and apt is informed that TeX dependencies are satisfied. Thus, when > you want to install a program with apt-get that depends on TeX Live, apt > will not try to install the TeX Live packages from the Ubuntu > repositories. > > how is apt informed that TeX dependencies are satisfied? > > Wolfgang > > Through equivs. It basically installs a dummy package that as far as apt is > concerned is the same as installing TeX Live debs. > > Scott > > Something like http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html ? -> > > Tell APT about your TeX Live installation by building a dummy package using > equivs: > > $ aptitude install equivs # as root > mkdir /tmp/tl-equivs && cd /tmp/tl-equivs > equivs-control texlive-local > # edit texlive-local (see below) > $ equivs-build texlive-local > $ sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2014-1_all.deb > > At the step "edit texlive-local", edit the Maintainer field and the list of > the packages provided by your local TeX Live installation as appropriate. If > you installed scheme-full except collection-texinfo as recommended, the file > should look like the following example file for TL 2014. For older releases > use one of the following examples files: for TL 2013, for TL 2011.
Yes that's correct. If you want to use install-tl-ubuntu and customize the control file, just edit this file: https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/blob/master/debian-control-texlive-in.txt Scott
