Installing TeX Live 2009 on 9.10

[Christoph Bier]

Christian Pleul schrieb am 29.12.2009 23:22:

> Hi,
> 
> First of all, I am new to Ubuntu.
> 
> I managed to download and decompress the tar.xz archive of TeX
> Live 2009. Now I got two folders "texmf" and "texmf-dist".
> 
> Could somebody please point me to the right direction about
> continuing with the next steps for the installation?
> 
> Thanks in advance, -- Christian

I don't know which archive file you have downloaded. An archive only
containing two folders but no installation scripts sounds a little
bit strange. There are several ways for obtaining TeXLive 2009
described here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html.
Installation is quite easy:
http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html. But be aware of a
stumbling block: TeXLive provides the file install-info and Ubuntu
installs a file with the same name. You have to deactivate TeXLive's
install-info (chmod -x /path/to/TL's install-info) for dpkg to work
properly.

HTH

Best
Christoph
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