[tex-live] Updating and maintaining an installation
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Jun 17 12:11:20 CEST 2007
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a recent TeXLive convert (teTeX, though, will always have a
> special place in my heart! ;-) ) who, after googling for a bit, has
> not been able to find out how to update within Linux what I have
> installed (that is, whatever came in the ISO image) to more recent
> versions of packages, or, really, even if that is possible at
> all---short of downloading packages `by hand' from CTAN and
> overwriting old versions. Any pointers?
>
> Also, reading through the documentation, it appears that there is some
> GUI maintenance tool for windows but I see no mention of such a thing
> for unixy environments. I think I could spend the time needed to come
> up with a such a thing, if indeed it does not yet exist. So: is there
> such a tool? If not: is the way the windows app works documented
> somewhere, for me to try to clone that?
look into the directory setuptl on the CD/DVD. There are GUI
installers for a few several UNIX platforms.
Regards,
Reinhard
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