TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Easy Installation of TeX Live on Ubuntu

[scottkosty]

The program "install-tl-ubuntu" is meant to ease the installation of TeX Live on Ubuntu versions 12.04 and later. To use it, simply run this on the terminal.

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sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu

It provides the following features:

• installs TeX Live
• notifies apt so that apt does not try to install the Ubuntu texlive-* packages as dependencies (e.g. if you do sudo apt-get install lyx)
• installs (optionally) additional LaTeX files for common journals that are not included in TeX Live
• links to the folder where Ubuntu installs TeX files so that when you install Ubuntu packages (e.g. FoilTeX and noweb) with LaTeX files, they will be available

It can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

[Leo Burckhardt]

Hi when I try to install Texlive through this way, I receive the answer "install-tl-ubuntu: command not found" in my terminal.

But I can't install texlive with an ISO image or though the online server neither... Any idea of what could be the problem ?

I have ubuntu 12.04 (64 bits)

[Johannes_B]

Did you really follow the instructions above? Download the zip, change in the folder containing the zip (Downloads?), unzip and cd into install-tl-ubuntu-master and type:

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sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu

This should work


Best regards
Johannes

[Leo Burckhardt]

Thank you very much for the answer, It worked indeed !

[juanuni]

Hi, I have a problem. When I do the instructions appears:

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install-tl-ubuntu: no repository was specified so     using the following:
 http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
install-tl-ubuntu: running apt and dpkg commands...
install-tl-ubuntu: downloading and extracting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: install-tl downloaded and extracted successfully.
./install-tl-ubuntu: línea 332: cd: install-tl-1.log: No es un directorio
install-tl-ubuntu: ERROR: cannot cd into dir.

what happend?. Sorry for my bad English. Thanks for you response.

[Johannes_B]

There is a logfile with the same name. Right now i am not sure, if this file has been generated by the installscript or something else. Delete (or rename) this file and try again would be my first suggestion.

Best regards
Johannes

[juanuni]

There is a logfile with the same name. Right now i am not sure, if this file has been generated by the installscript or something else. Delete (or rename) this file and try again would be my first suggestion.

Best regards
Johannes

Thanks. I have troubles with my O.S., but I solved this and I installed \TeXLive 2013 again without problems. Now, I have a litle problem. I use \TeXStudio like a \LaTeX editor, but I can't compile any LaTeX code.

I saw that I installed \TeXLive 2013 in /usr/local file. I suppose I should tell \TeXStudio the path for this to compile using \TeXLive 2013. How do I do that?

[Johannes_B]

The installation script should have added the binaries to your $PATH, making it accesible.
Please open a terminal and type

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latex --version

If the system cannot find anythiing, have a look at TeX Live - Quick install -> Post-install: setting PATH.

[juanuni]

The installation script should have added the binaries to your $PATH, making it accesible.
Please open a terminal and type

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latex --version

If the system cannot find anythiing, have a look at TeX Live - Quick install -> Post-install: setting PATH.

Hi the output is

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latex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
kpathsea version 6.1.1
Copyright 2013 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Compiled with libpng 1.5.16; using libpng 1.5.16
Compiled with zlib 1.2.7; using zlib 1.2.7
Compiled with xpdf version 3.03

[scottkosty]

Dear juanuni,

My apologies for not responding. I thought that I would receive notifications through email if this thread was responded to but I guess I did not check the box.

Hi, I have a problem. When I do the instructions appears:

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install-tl-ubuntu: no repository was specified so     using the following:
 http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
install-tl-ubuntu: running apt and dpkg commands...
install-tl-ubuntu: downloading and extracting install-tl for time number 1...
install-tl-ubuntu: install-tl downloaded and extracted successfully.
./install-tl-ubuntu: línea 332: cd: install-tl-1.log: No es un directorio
install-tl-ubuntu: ERROR: cannot cd into dir.

what happend?. Sorry for my bad English. Thanks for you response.

This was my fault. The bug is now fixed.