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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