Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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Arch linux has a package, aside from any arch directly installed
individualized texlive packages, that just installs the texlive network
install script, and directs the user to run the script that is located in
/opt .

This piece of magic is "texlive-installer",   available in the Arch Users
Repository (AUR), makes it easier to use texlive from upstream sources, by
doing the necessary work of handling dependencies.   Debian based distros
require to install a dummy package to accomplish this, and some kind of
tweaking may be necessary on other distros.  Once AUR is set up, I have run
"yay -S texlive-installer" or one may use other AUR helpers.   I think it's
not possible to install this with pacman.

As far as this problem of the OP, I cannot help.

Alan Davis

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:13 PM Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > By "LaTeX" I mean "that which is necessary to have a functioning latex
> > system." If by lower-level you mean the ecosystem itself vs. compiling
> > errors, completely agree. Clearly some core components are missing.
> > For example, the texmf.cnf file is provided by the arch package
> > texlive-core (assuming a package was used), so that's potentially not
> > even installed.
> > - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/texlive-core/
>
> I would also suggest referring to
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live#Installation for the
> packages to install on Arch. I myself am using Archlinux-packaged TeX
> Live without any issues. I believe I installed "texlive-most",
> "texlive-lang", and "biber", which are the 3 main packages/groups
> recommended by the wiki.
>
>

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