I'm trying to produce PDFs with Texinfo. I've installed it with: guix install texinfo Then I tried to run Texinfo and it produced a nice HTML page, but it failed when I tried to produce a PDF saying that there is no TeX installation. Then I installed the packages "texlive-latex-base", "texlive-fonts-latex" and "texlive-bin" and executed Texinfo again, but this time I got: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file. I could install the texlive package, but I don't have that much free space to waste. What I want is a minimal installation. I would be grateful if someone gives me a list of packages required on a base system to use all features of Texinfo.
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 577 bytes --] > I could install the texlive package, but I don't have that much free > space to waste. What I want is a minimal installation. Though this doesn't really answer your questions, I also wanted to do a minimal texlive installation and didn't want to install the big texlive package. So someone told me to install 'texlive-tiny' instead for a minimal texlive installation. I haven't tried it yet but is this information correct? -- Abhisek Paira E34E 825B 979E EB9F 8505 F80E E93D 353B 7740 0709 "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 832 bytes --]
Abhiseck Paira wrote:
>> I could install the texlive package, but I don't have that much free
>> space to waste. What I want is a minimal installation.
>
> Though this doesn't really answer your questions, I also wanted to do a
> minimal texlive installation and didn't want to install the big texlive
> package. So someone told me to install 'texlive-tiny' instead for a
> minimal texlive installation.
>
> I haven't tried it yet but is this information correct?
According to the source comments, texlive-tiny is only for use in
package definitions. I use texlive-base instead.
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Ozhap
Ozhap <ozhap@vollbio.de> writes:
> Abhiseck Paira wrote:
>
>>> I could install the texlive package, but I don't have that
>>> much free
>>> space to waste. What I want is a minimal installation.
>>
>> Though this doesn't really answer your questions, I also wanted
>> to do a
>> minimal texlive installation and didn't want to install the big
>> texlive
>> package. So someone told me to install 'texlive-tiny' instead
>> for a
>> minimal texlive installation.
>>
>> I haven't tried it yet but is this information correct?
>
> According to the source comments, texlive-tiny is only for use
> in
> package definitions. I use texlive-base instead.
The use of texlive-base is correct.
On top of that install whatever texlive-* package may be needed.
(I usually go by error messages to figure out the minimal set of
packages.)
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Ricardo