> 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?

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