Installing TeX Live 2009 on 9.10

[Christian Pleul]

Am 30.12.2009 um 01:01 schrieb 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.

I used "Downloading several big tarballs" and downloaded

texlive-20091107-texmf.tar.xz

from ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2009

After decompressing, this includes the above mentioned folders.


> Installation is quite easy:
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html.

I will check the net installer for that action.

> 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.

I guess this has to be done after the procedure of the network installer, because the decompressed

install-tl-20091228

does not include a file named

install-info



> HTH
> 
> Best
> Christoph

Thanks,
--
	Christian


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