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

[…]

> 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.

Just for information. The new TeX Live 2009 does not include a file called

install-info

anymore.

For more information see: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-July/021195.html

Best,
--
	Christian


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