Re: Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

2016-03-21 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:20:32AM -0400, UD wrote:
> This is not a new topic, and this is probably not the right place to
> ask, but
> how do I update TexLive in Ubuntu (15.10) or Mint (17.3)?  When
> TexLive is installed via Ubuntu, there is no package manager, and
> Ubuntu discourages package management that is done outside of its own
> package management.
> Thanks
> E.Kaplan

You might be interested in
https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/

On Mint if /opt does not exist, you might need to do something like the
following:
sudo mkdir --mode=755 /opt
see e.g.
https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/issues/20

Scott


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Re: Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

2016-03-21 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:47:42PM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote:
> On 03/21/2016 11:20 AM, UD wrote:

> On the other hand, TeXlive (how do they spell/capitalize that, anyway?) is
> quite mature by now, and not much changes between updates.

I agree regarding e.g. pdfTeX and TeX Live itself (e.g. tlmgr), but I
find that there are many noticeable (for better and worse) changes in
LuaTeX and all of the CTAN packages that are continuously updated.

Scott


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Re: Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

2016-03-21 Thread Daniel CLEMENT 
Le lundi 21 mars 2016 à 11:20 -0400, UD a écrit :
> This is not a new topic, and this is probably not the right place to
> ask, but 
> how do I update TexLive in Ubuntu (15.10) or Mint (17.3)?  When
> TexLive is installed via Ubuntu, there is no package manager, and
> Ubuntu discourages package management that is done outside of its own
> package management. 

Yes, and with Ubuntu's "fixed base" you don't get major version updates.

Perhaps this PPA can help?

https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/texlive

(Note that I'm not using it, I've been an Ubuntu user but I switched to
Debian.)

> Thanks
> E.Kaplan 
> --
HTH,
-- 
Daniel CLEMENT

Re: Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

2016-03-21 Thread David L. Johnson 

On 03/21/2016 11:20 AM, UD wrote:
This is not a new topic, and this is probably not the right place to 
ask, but
how do I update TexLive in Ubuntu (15.10) or Mint (17.3)?  When 
TexLive is installed via Ubuntu, there is no package manager, and 
Ubuntu discourages package management that is done outside of its own 
package management.
I don't know that much about Ubuntu, except that it is debian based (as 
is Mint, isn't it?).  I can't imagine why Ubuntu's update path, with or 
without a package management program, would not keep TeXlive fairly well 
up-to-date.  How do you go about updating Ubuntu?  For debian "apt-get 
update; apt-get upgrade" works perfectly well.


You need to find someone (maybe someone on this list) who is 
knowledgeable about Ubuntu, and find out how to upgrade in general. If 
that is not forthcoming then you should find a distribution (such as 
"real" debian) that allows easy updates.


On the other hand, TeXlive (how do they spell/capitalize that, anyway?) 
is quite mature by now, and not much changes between updates.  What is 
it that you can't do with the version you have (and which version is it?)?



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David L. Johnson

Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University

Re: Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

2016-03-21 Thread Kornel Benko 
Am Montag, 21. März 2016 um 11:20:32, schrieb UD 
> This is not a new topic, and this is probably not the right place to ask, but
> how do I update TexLive in Ubuntu (15.10) or Mint (17.3)?  When TexLive is 
> installed via Ubuntu, there is no package manager, and Ubuntu discourages 
> package management that is done outside of its own package management.
> Thanks
> E.Kaplan
> --

TL is included in the package manager for debian packages like synaptic.

Kornel


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Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

2016-03-21 Thread UD 

  
  
This is not a new topic, and this is probably not the right place to
ask, but 
how do I update TexLive in Ubuntu (15.10) or Mint (17.3)?  When
TexLive is installed via Ubuntu, there is no package manager, and
Ubuntu discourages package management that is done outside of its
own package management. 
Thanks
E.Kaplan 
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