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2012-02-19T20:04:34Z

TeX Directory Structure (TDS)

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	Unfortunately only a subsets of all the packages are provided in this way. Some libraries (like PGF and PGFplots provide TDS bundles in their respective sites, outside CTAN, for example at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/)		Unfortunately only a subsets of all the packages are provided in this way. Some libraries (like PGF and PGFplots) provide TDS bundles in their respective sites, outside CTAN, for example at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/

	= Installation from Scratch =		= Installation from Scratch =

2012-02-19T07:45:04Z

TeX Directory Structure (TDS)

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	Unfortunately only a subsets of all the packages are provided in this way. Some libraries (like PGF and PGFplots provide TDS bundles in their respective sites, outside CTAN, for example at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/)		Unfortunately only a subsets of all the packages are provided in this way. Some libraries (like PGF and PGFplots provide TDS bundles in their respective sites, outside CTAN, for example at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/)

	= Installation from Scratch =		= Installation from Scratch =

2012-02-19T07:44:46Z

TeX Directory Structure (TDS)

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	Unfortunately only a subsets of all the packages are provided in this way.		Unfortunately only a subsets of all the packages are provided in this way. Some libraries (like PGF and PGFplots provide TDS bundles in their respective sites, outside CTAN, for example at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/)

	= Installation from Scratch =		= Installation from Scratch =

2011-10-17T01:42:45Z

Other Resourses

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	* http://tex.stackexchange.com/		* http://tex.stackexchange.com/
			* http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/pst/texlive.html

2011-10-04T01:29:26Z

Use package manager

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	(warning: this takes 1800MB and ~1 hour of download)		(warning: this takes 1800MB and ~1 hour of download)

	Sometimes you can look for particular packages using Synaptic, although the search may not give all the results.		Sometimes you can look for particular packages using the Synaptic cache, although the search may not give all the results.
			$ apt-cache search attachfile
			texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
			$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

	==== Install individual packages ====		==== Install individual packages ====

2011-10-03T21:52:08Z

Use package manager

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	For a basic installation for writing articles for journals, you can do almost everything by installing		For a basic installation for writing articles for journals, you can do almost everything by installing
	sudo apt-get install texlive-publishers		sudo apt-get install texlive-publishers texlive-fonts-extra
	(this takes approximately 300MB and 10 minutes)		(this takes approximately 300MB and 10 minutes)

2011-10-03T21:30:27Z

Think Twice (install individual packages)

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 These instructions are based on this [http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html official TeXLive Quick Install guide] modified to have the TeX system installed in the user-space (home directory).
-You have to have a very good reason to install LaTeX from scratch; remember that you can install individual LaTeX packages by adding the files to the user space ~/texmf/tex/latex/packname/*.sty and running <code>texhash</code>.
+You have to have a very good reason to install LaTeX from scratch;
  PACKAGE=pdfcomment

2011-10-03T21:14:56Z

Removing this local installation of TeXLive

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	=== Removing this local installation of TeXLive ===		=== Removing this local installation of TeXLive ===

	rm -rf ~/usr/local/texlive ~/usr/local/bin/tex ~/bin/epstopdf ~/bin/kpse* ~/bin/tex ~/bin/tlmgr		rm -rf ~/usr/local/texlive ~/usr/texmf* ~/usr/local/bin/tex ~/bin/epstopdf ~/bin/kpse* ~/bin/tex ~/bin/tlmgr

	= Two TeX system coexisting =		= Two TeX system coexisting =

2011-10-03T21:12:02Z

Removing TeXLive

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	and search for missing packages.		and search for missing packages.

	=== Removing TeXLive ===		=== Removing this local installation of TeXLive ===

	rm -rf ~/usr/local/texlive ~/usr/local/bin/tex		rm -rf ~/usr/local/texlive ~/usr/local/bin/tex ~/bin/epstopdf ~/bin/kpse* ~/bin/tex ~/bin/tlmgr

	= Two TeX system coexisting =		= Two TeX system coexisting =

2011-09-22T06:35:03Z

Removing TeXLive

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	./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr		./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
	make install		make install

			=== Completing/Updating packages ===

			To add missing packages (e.g. that the default --not full-- installation left over) you can run
			tlmgr -gui

			and search for missing packages.

	=== Removing TeXLive ===		=== Removing TeXLive ===