Debian TeXlive install

Setup

TeXlive is contained in Debian. Just call

	aptitude update
	aptitude install texlive

Which will bring you: texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-context, texlive-latex-base, texlive-base. You can go on and install additional packages (like texlive-latex-extra) and additional languages (like texlive-lang-german) and additional documentation (like texlive-doc-en).

If you want to have a system closely mirroring a TeX Live DVD, you can install the texlive-full packages, which pulls in all packages.

	aptitude install texlive-full

Install

After purging any other TeX distribution, such as teTeX:

  apt-get remove --purge tetex-* texinfo

you have just to apt-get these packages as root:

  apt-get install lmodern texlive-context

The texlive-context package is old compared to the context packages from Norbert Preining; see Debian_installation for how to use the newer packages.

Fonts

It may be of interest to get fonts as well:

  apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended cm-super

TeXinfo

And to get back texinfo if needed:

  apt-get install texinfo

--Olivier 13:05, 7 November 2005 (CET)
--sanjoy 07:00, 6 January 2007 (GMT)