On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 09:25:17AM +0200, Michael Berger wrote: > > > On 06/11/2016 08:14 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 08:17:35AM +0200, Michael Berger wrote: > > > Dear experts, > > > I am a heavy user of LyX under Mageia5 which has all the normal TexLive > > > stuff but does not provide tlmgr, TeX Live's package and configuration > > > manager. > > > What I am facing now is this 2.9 GiB 'texlive2016-20160523.iso - Ark' > > > monster in /Home/Downloads. > > > After reading all the documentation that came along plus some info from > > > the > > > internet I am more confused than ever and just do not know how to install > > > tlmgr on my system. > > > > > > Who would be so kind as to advise me (a person of blessed ignorance in > > > this > > > field) how to do that!? > > > I prepared a fresh install of Mageia5 on a separate HD that could be used > > > without damaging my system and data. > > > > > > Thanks and cheers, > > > Michael > > Hi Michael, > > > > If you want tlmgr my guess is you will have to install TeX Live > > manually, using install-tl. See here: > > https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html > > If you have trouble, the tex-live mailing list is very helpful: > > http://lists.tug.org/tex-live > > > > I have a script that automates everything and makes things easy, but it > > only works on Ubuntu. I think it would take a lot of work to adapt it to > > Mageia5 but just in case you want to see how something in particular is > > done, it is here: > > https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu > > > > Best, > > > > Scott > Dear Scott, > after all my so many attempts I had just decided to give up and simply wait > for better times. But your answer stirs up new hope. > I will be free in a couple of days to attend to your promising ideas and > then report back to you. > > Thanks and cheers! > Michael > > PS: the background is that I asap want to use the great new features of > Lyx2.2, classicthesis4.2, and Komascript2016
Sounds like you have a good goal in mind. Best of luck! Scott
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