

Once you have the TeX Live distribution, run the install-tl script to install (on Windows, Write into the destination directory, but TeX Live itself does not care

Shared installations.) As always, you need to have permission to
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User, except on macOS, where it's conventional to install as Indeed, we recommend installing it as a normal You do not need to be root (administrator on Windows) to install, In these two directories (on Unix-like systems): If you're re-installing after a previous attempt, be sure toĬompletely remove your failed installation. (For Windows, TeX Live comes with its own Perl.)įor regular installations via download, we highly recommend installing the LWP On Windows, your system must provide a standard Perl installation with It boils down to either getting the DVD from a TeX user group (ideally by becoming a member), or downloading in various ways. You do not need to remove an installation of a previous release, orĪny system-provided TeX multiple releases of TL can coexist on the sameĪ separate page describes various ways toĪcquire the software. The rest of this page explains the above in more detail. Change settings as desired and install.Execute the newly-downloaded install-tl-windows.exe.To change anything and everything else, omit the.Others will be found), specify -texuserdir=/your/dir. ToĬhange the location of the per-user directories (where TEXMFHOME and texdir=/install/dir to the install-tl command. To change the main installation directories (rarely needed), add.To omit installation of the documentation resp.To install a smaller scheme, pass -scheme= scheme to.By default, everything is installed (7+GB).If you want the default to be letter,Īdd -paper=letter to the install-tl command. Finally, prepend /usr/local/texlive/YYYY/bin/PLATFORM to yourĮ.g., /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux.install-tl -no-interaction # as root or with cd /tmp # working directory of your choice.Non-interactive default installation on anything but Windows: Make sure you have the Cygwin prerequisitesįor more details on the commands given here, just keep scrolling Cygwin users can follow the instructions for Unix-like systems, but.For macOS (and MacOSX), we recommend installing MacTeX, which contains all of TeX Live (and a few.Unix-like system, a minimal recipe follows.
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If you don't want to bother reading the full installĭocumentation and just want to install everything in TeX Live, on a Quick install - TeX Live - TeX Users Group TeX Live - Quick install for Unix
