Hi,<br><br>I am trying to duplicate an installation of TeXLive 2008 from my older laptop to a new PC (both running the same version of Linux). Is there an easy way to install the same packages that I have in the old installation, in the new one?<br>
<br>I tried to use tlmgr backup --all in the old installation, transfer all the generated lzma files to the new PC and use tlmgr restore there. <br>First, would this be a valid approach?<br>Second, I found out that essentially tlmgr restore can only restore one specific package of a specific version at a time, which in not convenient at all in my case. I can probably create a script to do the job, but it would certainly be nice to have tlmgr do it (for example, I imagine that updating one package at a time would refresh filename database each time, which is certainly a waste of time).<br>
<br>Is there another solution? Now that I think of it, could I simply copy over /usr/local/texlive ? (and what else?)<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br>