[tex-live] Alternative to .iso?

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Ken Brooks wrote:

> Thanks, Reinhard; that helps.  (I can't muck with fstab because the
> "recipe" (script) I'm writing will be used on a lot of machines I don't
> control and can't have root privileges on.)
>
> Now I realize I also want to automate the process of doing a full or
> nearly full install.  Anybody know enough to instruct me?  I could imagine:
>    a. hacking away at install-tl.sh until I have a non-interactive,
>       pre-scripted way of doing the same thing
>    b. Using install-pkg.sh on various collections until I have
> everything
>       I need.
> Recommendations?  (Would an install-pkg of collection-basic be enough to
> get up and running?)
>
The crude method is to install it once and then copy the texlive/2005
tree. The information in ls-R is relative so that it will work. Of course
you need binaries for all platforms.

> Ken
>
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Brooks <kenb at rpath.com> writes:
> >
> >   > Here are rpath we would like to automate the process of
> >   > downloading and installing the texlive content, as we do with most
> >   > other packages.  The only format I can see available on the
> >   > texlive page is .iso, or various compressed forms thereof.  To
> >   > mount an .iso file requires root privileges, which hinders
> >   > automation.
> >
> >   > Is the texlive content available as a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 archive?
> >   > Or is there another option I have overlooked?
> >
> >   wget -r http://tug.org/ftp/texlive/Contents/inst
> >
> > This is the content of the install CD.  Run this command in a
> > temporary directory and execute install-tl.sh .
> >
> > install-tl.sh is an interactive tool, that's probably not exactly what
> > you want.  But maybe it is sufficient to unzip all files in the
> > archive directory.
> > Regards,
> >   Reinhard
> >
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